bucht

From Scots bucht, of uncertain origin.

bucht (plural buchts)

1. (Scotland) A sheepfold, especially one in which to keep ewes at milking-time.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 150:

     Far over the braes by Upperhill where Ewan would be getting set in his clothes […] the sheep were baaing in their winter buchts.

• Butch, butch

• bocht
• boecht

Flemish variant of Dutch bocht.

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bucht m (plural buchten, no diminutive)

1. junk
2. disgusting drink, trash, rubbish
3. pests, weed

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bucht

1. inflection of buchen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

bucht

1. inflection of buchen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

• bocht (Föhr-Amrum)
• boch (Heligoland)
• Bocht (Sylt)

From Old Frisian *bucht, from Proto-West Germanic *buht, *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bay”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).

bucht

1. (Mooring) bay, bight, gulf

• boucht, bught

From Middle English bight, from Old English byht (“corner, bend”).

• IPA^(key): /bʌxt/, /buxt/

bucht (plural buchts)

1. sheepfold, pen, bucht