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Definition of Buccula
1. Noun. A fold of fatty tissue under the chin.
Medical Definition of Buccula
1. A fatty puffing under the chin. Synonym: double chin. Origin: L. Dim. Of bucca, cheek (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buccula
Literary usage of Buccula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anglo-Saxon Weapon Names Treated Archæologically and Etymologically by May Lansfield Keller (1906)
"But we meet CGL IV, 31445, with buccula, bucca in a glossary where there is no
idea of Old English interpretation; again we find IV, 27, 3, buccula bacca, ..."
2. Anglistische Forschungen (1906)
"With reference to the second explanation cf. the gloss vacca, vel buccula : buch
RA Wright I, p. 97, from a Welsh Gloss of the end of the 12th or the ..."
3. Glossaire roman des chroniques rimés de Godefroid de Bouillon, du Chevȧlier by Émile Léonard Jean Baptiste Gachet, Felix Liebrecht (1859)
"Ce savant a démontré que le mol buccula , de la Satire x de Juvénal, devait se
traduire par bouclier. I! s'agit d'un trophée : Bellorum ..."
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