kuchen

Borrowed from German Kuchen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkukən/

kuchen (uncountable)

1. Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
   • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:

     “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.

   • 2010 [1949], Marion Flexner, Out Of Kentucky Kitchens, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:

     We always make up two crusts at a time, lining two pans with the kuchen dough and keeping one in the icebox until ready to bake.

From Middle Dutch cuchen, coechen, cochen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Akin to English cough, German keuchen.

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kuchen

1. to give out a dry and brief cough

kuchen

1. Plural form of kuch

From German Kuchen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuxen/ [ˈku.xẽn]
• Rhymes: -uxen

kuchen m (plural kúchenes)

1. cake, especially made with fruit