Meanings
nouncachaça (countable and uncountable, plural cachaças)
plural cachaças
- countableuncountableA type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.First known use 19th c.
Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.
2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 341 more example
A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty.
1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 222
Origin
- Portuguesecachaça
- Englishcachaça
Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cachaça, of uncertain origin.
More words from Portuguese
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Japanese カシャッサ
- カシャッサ (kashassa)distilled spirit from sugar cane
Portuguese cachaça, pinga
- cachaçadistilled spirit from sugar cane
- pingadistilled spirit from sugar cane
Spanish cachaza
- cachazadistilled spirit from sugar cane
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with cachaça
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