Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A pastille used to sweeten the breath.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sweetmeat, generally in the form of a pill, made of the extracts of licorice, cashew-nut, gum, etc., used by tobacco-smokers and others to sweeten the breath.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sweet taken to sweeten the breath.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Portuguese cachu, from Malayalam kāccu, from Tamil kāyccu.]

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French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu ‘type of acacia’.

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  • A pastille used to sweeten the breath.

    February 24, 2007