bochechar
Portuguese, verb/bo.ʃeˈʃa(ʁ)/
bochechar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to rinse the mouth (to move a liquid inside the mouth with the cheeks)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ter um golo de água ou líquido na boca e agitá-lo movendo as bochechas”.
What does bochechar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rinse the mouth (to move a liquid inside the mouth with the cheeks)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ter um golo de água ou líquido na boca e agitá-lo movendo as bochechas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bochechar
- bochecho first-person present singular
- bochechei first-person preterite singular
- bochechado participle past
- bochechares infinitive second-person singular
- bochecharmos first-person infinitive plural
- bochechardes infinitive plural second-person
- bochecharem infinitive plural third-person
- bochechando gerund
- bochechados masculine participle past
- bochechada feminine participle past
- bochechadas feminine participle past
- bochechas indicative present second-person
- bochecha indicative present singular
- bochechamos first-person indicative plural
- bochechais indicative plural present
- bochecham indicative plural present
- bochechava first-person imperfect indicative
- bochechavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bochechar?
- Brazil /bo.ʃeˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [bo.ʃeˈʃa(h)]
- /bo.ʃeˈʃa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bochechar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bochechar in Portuguese?
bochechar appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).