kuchen

Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkukən/

kuchen (countable and uncountable, plural kuchens)

1. Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
   • 1915, National Baker, volume 20, page 72:

     French pastry and bread, Vienna rolls and German kuchens will also be included in the list of articles placed on sale.

   • 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.

   • 1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24:

     Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.

   • 1989, Martin M. Pegler, editor, Successful Food Merchandising and Display, Retail Reporting Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1:

     It is baguettes, bagels, braided challahs, big black Russian pumpernickels, light and fluffy German kuchens and Syrian pitas large or small.

   • 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 of kuch

Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.

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

kuchen m (plural kúchenes)

1. cake, especially made with fruit