loche

loche (plural loches)

1. Archaic form of loach (“kind of fish”).

• “loche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Chloe, Chloë, Cohle, HELOC, c-hole, chole, chole-

• IPA^(key): /lɔʃ/

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Inherited from Middle French loche, from Old French loche, further origin unknown:

• Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *laukka (“loach”), which could be from Gaulish *leuka (“loach, slug”), also attested as the feminine name Leuca, from leux (“bright, light”), a reference to slugs' bright appearance, the fish later being associated due to similarities to the slug.^[1]
• Alternatively, perhaps from Frankish *loppijā, *lobbijā (“something lumpy, slow, or clumsy”), from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to cut off, peel, hang loosely”). If so, related to Middle English lob (“pollack”), Middle Low German lobbe, lubbe (“stockfish; thick, droopy lip”), Middle Dutch lobbe (“thick mass, lobe, lump”), German Low German Lobb (“thick, mushy liquid”), English looby.

loche f (plural loches)

1. (zoology) one of the several species of giant slugs belonging to the families Arionidae and Limacidae
2. (zoology) one of the several species of loach belonging to a number of different orders

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

loche f (plural loches)

1. (slang) breast

   Synonym: nichon

   Mec, regarde-moi cette paire de loches !

   Dude, look at this pair of tits!

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

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loche

1. inflection of lochen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

• IPA^(key): /ˈlot͡ʃe/ [ˈlo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: lo‧che

As a native Peruvian pre-Hispanic term, probably of Quechua origin.

loche m (plural loches)

1. (Peru) pumpkin, crookneck pumpkin, butternut squash, winter squash

Possibly an interpretation of Etymology 1 above, probably because the squash is a deep orange-reddish color.

loche m or f (masculine and feminine plural loches)

1. (Andalusia) ginger (color)

From French loche.

loche m (plural loches)

1. synonym of locha

• “loche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025