bucht

See also: Bucht

English

Etymology

From Scots bucht, of uncertain origin.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Butch, butch

Dutch

Alternative forms

• bocht
• boecht

Etymology

Flemish variant of Dutch bocht.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bucht m (plural buchten)

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

German

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Verb

bucht

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

Luxembourgish

Verb

bucht

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

Scots

Alternative forms

• boucht, bught

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌxt/, /buxt/

Noun

bucht (plural buchts)

1. sheepfold, pen, bucht