quiche

Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو‎ (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake.

• IPA^(key): /kiːʃ/
• Rhymes: -iːʃ

quiche (countable and uncountable, plural quiches)

1. A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.

quiche (comparative more quiche, superlative most quiche)

1. (slang) Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring.

   I'm not even bragging, but me and my friends are pretty much quiche.

• chequi

• IPA^(key): /kiʃ/

From Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche, from Middle High German kuoche, from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô, from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”). First attested in French in 1805. More at cake.

quiche f (plural quiches)

1. (cooking) quiche
2. (colloquial) slap; blow, strike

• (quiche): ouiche
• (slap): tarte
• (slap): gifle

• → Dutch: quiche
• → English: quiche
  • → Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)
  • → Korean: 키슈 (kisyu)
• → German: Quiche
• → Greek: κις (kis)
• → Portuguese: quiche
• → Russian: киш (kiš)
• → Spanish: quiche

Non-lemma forms

quiche

1. first-person singular present indicative of quicher
2. third-person singular present indicative of quicher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of quicher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of quicher
5. second-person singular imperative of quicher

• “quiche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chique

Borrowed from French quiche.

quiche f or m (in variation) (plural quiches)

1. quiche (pie made of eggs and cream)

In Portugal quiche is mostly used as a feminine noun whereas Brazil shows a more mixed m/f usage[1].

Borrowed from French quiche.

quiche m or f (plural quiches)

1. quiche (pie made from eggs)

• “quiche” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.