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Definition: Quiche |
QuicheNoun1. A member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala. 2. A tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables). 3. The Mayan language spoken by the Quiche people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Quiche" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: Quiche |
| English words defined with "Quiche": quiche Lorraine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Quiche": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Quiche" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (quiche), German (quiche), Italian (quiche), Portuguese (quiche), Spanish (quiche). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In cooking, a quiche is a pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked. In Quiche Lorraine, cream and cooked bacon are added.
See also pie, pastry.
Quiche should not be confused with Quiché, a native American people of Guatemala, nor with El Quiché, a department of Guatemala. The word quiche is derived from the Lorraine dialect of the French language, and entered English in 1941.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quiche."
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Screenplays | People in stucco houses shouldn't throw quiche. (Miami Vice; writing credit: Jan Matterne) I hope those fags don't quiche us again. (Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World; writing credit: Q. Allan Brocka) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Guatemala | Also in July, 40 remains were exhumed from a former military camp in Zacualpa, Quiche. (references) |
Guatemala | In June a total of 28 victims of a 1982 massacre by the army at Chiche, Quiche were reinterred. (references) | |
Guatemala | Ford worked on mental health projects with war victims in Quiche and participated in the REHMI project. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | In August the public defender's office created offices in Quetzaltenango, Quiche, and Alta Verapaz to reduce discrimination against indigenous people, particularly by providing access to the justice system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Quiche" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.83% of the time. "Quiche" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.83% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Quiche": quiche Lorraine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Quiche"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | quiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | quiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Quiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | quiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tésztában sült sós sodó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | quiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ichequay quiche, pastelão (pie). (various references) пирог с заварным кремом и различной начинкой. (various references) quiche. (various references) แป้งอบกรอบใส่คัสตาร์" เนย และส่วนผสมอื่นๆ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Quiche": quiches. (additional references) | |
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"Quiche" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duibhe, Giichi, Huichol, Kichik, Kirche, Kuichi, Qichao, Qi-chao, quach, quece, quecho, quiced, Quichua, quichy, quidhe, quih, quike, quikee, quise, quishe, quithe, quoce, quyke, qwiche. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Quiche" (pronounced kē"sh) |
| 2 | -ē" sh | leash, pastiche, sheesh, unleash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-q-u" | |
-2 letters: huic. | |
-3 letters: chi, cue, ecu, hic, hie, hue, ice, ich. | |
-4 letters: eh, he, hi, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-q-u" | |
+1 letter: quiches. | |
+2 letters: quaiches, quitches. | |
+3 letters: chibouque, quenching, squinched, squinches, technique. | |
+4 letters: chequering, chibouques, coquettish, squelchier, squelching, techniques. | |
+5 letters: chloroquine, discotheque, squelchiest, squirearchy. | |
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