Meanings
adjectivebucculent (comparative more bucculent, superlative most bucculent)
comparative more bucculent · superlative most bucculent
- obsoleterarePossessing a wide mouth.
[…] and instead of the Amazonian Trull, or the weather-beaten Admiral which frowns from under the bowsprit of a British man-of-war, they carve on their prows the fair image of some bucculent Cherub, or some semi-anatomized Saint.
1823, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 276
Origin
- Latinbucculentus
- Englishbucculent
From Latin bucculentus.
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