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.

Synonyms

catechu

Portuguese

Verb

cachou

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

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