cachou
English
Etymology
From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkæʃuː/
- Homophone: cashew
Noun
cachou (plural cachous)
- 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.
- 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, Chapter 19, p. 347,
- But her husband, frowning, remembered those little sweets, or cachous, scented with something like violet, a synthetic smell, that had drifted on the more irritating afternoons above the smells of the sealing wax and ink.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback), page 20:
- A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.
Synonyms
- catechu
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʃo(w)/ [kaˈʃo(ʊ̯)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈʃo(w)/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈʃo/
Verb
cachou
- third-person singular preterite indicative of cachar