quiche

See also: quiché and Quiché

English

slice of quiche

Etymology

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.

The sexually alluring sense orignates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːʃ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun

quiche (countable and uncountable, plural quiches)

1. A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.

Derived terms

• coronation quiche
• quiche-eater
• quichelike
• quichey
• real men don't eat quiche

 

Related terms

• quiche lorraine

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)
• → Korean: 키슈 (kisyu)

Translations

a kind of pie

• Afrikaans: quiche, souttert
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 法式蛋批 (faat³ sik¹ daan⁶ pai¹), 蛋批 (daan⁶ pai¹)

  Mandarin: 法式鹹派 / 法式咸派 (fǎshì xiánpài), 基切 (jīqiè), 什錦烘餅 / 什锦烘饼 (shíjǐn hōngbǐng)

• Esperanto: kiŝo
• Finnish: ranskalainen piiras, piiras (fi)
• French: quiche (fr) f
• German: Quiche (de) f
• Greek: κις (el) n (kis)
• Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)
• Korean: 키슈 (kisyu)
• Polish: kisz (pl) m
• Portuguese: quiche (pt) m or f
• Russian: киш (ru) m (kiš)
• Spanish: quiche (es) f
• Swedish: paj (sv) c, quiche (sv) c

Adjective

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.

Anagrams

• chequi

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French quiche. Doublet of koek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiʃ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: qui‧che

Noun

quiche f (plural quiches, diminutive quicheje n)

1. quiche

Derived terms

• groentequiche
• visquiche

 

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiʃ/

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

quiche f (plural quiches)

1. (cooking) quiche

   Synonym: ouiche

2. (colloquial) slap; blow, strike

   Synonym: gifle

3. (colloquial, derogatory) a completely unskilled person

   Synonyms: nul, zéro

   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 33:

     Il avait dit quelque chose de désagréable comme « elle a l’air tellement quiche celle-là je préfère encore me taper une meuf en plastique » et Alexandre avait ri jaune.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Danish: quiche
• → Dutch: quiche
• → English: quiche
  • → Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)
  • → Korean: 키슈 (kisyu)
• → Esperanto: kiŝo
• → German: Quiche
• → Greek: κις (kis)
• → Polish: quiche, kisz
• → Portuguese: quiche
• → Russian: киш (kiš)
• → Spanish: quiche
• → Swedish: quiche
• → Thai: กิช (gìch)

Etymology 2

From esquicher.

Noun

quiche f (plural quiches)

1. (slang) puke, vomit

Verb

quiche

1. inflection of quicher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “quiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chique

Polish

quiche

Alternative forms

• kisz

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French quiche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiʂ/
• Rhymes: -iʂ
• Syllabification: quiche

Noun

quiche m inan

1. quiche (savoury pie)

Declension

Declension of quiche

	singular	plural
nominative	quiche	quiche'e
genitive	quiche'a	quiche'y
dative	quiche'owi	quiche'om
accusative	quiche	quiche'e
instrumental	quiche'em	quiche'ami
locative	quiche'u	quiche'ach
vocative	quiche'u	quiche'e

Further reading

• quiche in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French quiche, from Rhine Franconian Küeche, from Old High German kuohho. Doublet of cuca.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʃe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈki.t͡ʃɨ/

• Hyphenation: qui‧che

Noun

quiche (Portugal, Brazil) f or (Brazil) m (plural quiches)

1. quiche (pie made of eggs and cream)

Usage notes

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French quiche. Doublet of kuchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiʃ/ [ˈkiʃ]
  • Rhymes: -iʃ
• IPA^(key): /ˈkit͡ʃe/ [ˈki.t͡ʃe]
  • Rhymes: -itʃe
  • Syllabification: qui‧che

Noun

quiche m or f same meaning (plural quiches)

1. quiche (pie made from eggs)

   Synonym: tarta

Further reading

• “quiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10