Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, the fleshy part under the chin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fold of fatty tissue under the chin
Examples
“Record-setting heat this summer and lack of rain have halted the flow on this part of the Brazos, and Notropis buccula and Notropis oxyrhynchus have been stuck in isolated pools.”
The Wall Street Journal: Scientists Fish for Way to Save Shiners
“Eight buccula…51 oxy," they yelled out as Mr. Mayes tallied the numbers in an orange notebook.”
The Wall Street Journal: Scientists Fish for Way to Save Shiners
“S, and yarrow we can wrinkly crosspiece and buccula for a seaside that, at its bedder, may not be unseasoned for it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buccula’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 160 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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Seven Letters of Joy
tertile, retinol, opacity, ceilidh, opaline, doughty, luddite, languor, buccula, sillage, delphic, surfeit and 32 more...
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absquatulate, bloviate, clinchpoop
In which I reveal that, for the most part, I have the sense of humour of a third-grader.
scuttlebutt, fisticuffs, milquetoast, besotted, behemoth, filibuster, verklempt, indefatigable, plenipotentiary, porcine, mitosis, strumpet and 65 more...
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Joannasephine's Words
fluffle, squalloop, mungo, shoddy, scroop, jacinth, stirp, honorificabilitud..., iatrogenic, abscission, aedile, allochthonous and 25 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for buccula.
missanthropist I wonder what this has in common with 'Bucolic'. The implications are damning! Jul 31, 2008
seanahan I immediately thought bunnicula. Apr 10, 2008
ofravens Not to be confused with Dracula, Broccula, or Bunnicula.
Hee. Apr 9, 2008
reesetee A double chin! Jan 4, 2008