panocha

• panoche, panoja, panouchi

Borrowed from Spanish panocha.

panocha (countable and uncountable, plural panochas)

1. coarse Mexican brown sugar

• IPA^(key): /paˈnot͡ʃa/, [paˈno.t͡ɕa]
• Rhymes: -ot͡ʃa
• Hyphenation: pa‧no‧cha

panocha f (plural panoches)

1. Alternative form of panoya

Likely from a Mozarabic derivative of a Vulgar Latin *pannucea or *pānucea, based either on Latin pannus (“cloth”) or pānus (“ear of millet”). Despite being heavily associated with panoja, not a straightforward doublet of it.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /paˈnot͡ʃa/ [paˈno.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: pa‧no‧cha

panocha f (plural panochas)

1. corncob

   Synonyms: mazorca, elote

2. ear of grain
3. (botany) panicle
4. (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile) pancake made of cornmeal and cheese
5. (Mexico) coarse brown sugar
6. (vulgar, Cuba, Central America, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela) pussy (vagina)

• “panocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28