cachou

From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæʃuː/
• Homophone: cashew

cachou (plural cachous)

1. A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback), page 20:

     Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.

• catechu

cachou

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) preterite indicative of cachar