broche

Borrowed from French broche.

broche (plural broches)

1. Obsolete form of brooch.

broche (third-person singular simple present broches, present participle broching, simple past and past participle broched)

1. Obsolete form of broach.

broche (plural broches)

1. Alternative form of bracha.

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

Borrowed from French broche.

• IPA^(key): /brɔʃ/

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• Hyphenation: broche

broche f or n (plural broches, diminutive brocheje n or brochetje n)

1. a brooch

   Synonyms: sierspeld, speld

• brochette

• → Indonesian: bros

Inherited from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca (“spike”), feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish, compare Old Irish brog (“awl”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

broche f (plural broches)

1. (jewelry) brooch, pin
2. (cooking) spit, skewer

   poulet à la broche ― chicken on the spit

3. spike, peg

broche

1. inflection of brocher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

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broche f (invariable)

1. (mycology) sheathed woodtuft (Kuehneromyces mutabilis (synonym: Pholiota mutabilis))

   Synonym: famigliola gialla

Borrowed from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, from Latin broccus.

• brooche, brouche, bruche, brush

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔːt͡ʃ(ə)/

broche (plural broches)

1. A spear or pike; a weapon for impalement.
2. A spit; a rod for cooking meat on.
3. A brooch; jewelry mounted on a pin.
4. Any piece of jewelry or ornamentation.
5. Any other long rod, pole, or needle.
6. (rare, figurative) Something very valuable.

• brochen

• English: broach, brooch
• Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

• “brōche, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 March 2019.

broche

1. alternative form of brochen

Inherited from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp”).

broche f (plural broches)

1. (Jersey, cooking) spit

• r'pas à la broche

Inherited from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp”).

broche oblique singular, f (oblique plural broches, nominative singular broche, nominative plural broches)

1. brooch, pin (jewellery)
2. (cooking) spit

• French: broche
• → Galician: brocha (“pin; nail”)
• → Middle English: broche, brooche, brouche, bruche, brush
  • English: broach, brooch
  • Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “broche”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

• Hyphenation: bro‧che

Borrowed from French broche.^[1][2] Doublet of broca.

broche m (plural broches)

1. brooch
2. clasp
3. (Portugal, vulgar) blowjob

   Synonyms: (formal) felação; see also Thesaurus:felação

broche

1. inflection of brochar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “broche”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French broche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾot͡ʃe/ [ˈbɾo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: bro‧che

broche m (plural broches)

1. clasp, brooch
2. paperclip
3. cuff link, cufflink
4. (figurative) punch line (final, concluding statement)

   poner el broche ― to round off

5. (Argentina) clothes peg

   Synonym: pinza

• “broche”, 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