Par Buccas
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- per Bacco: (Italian) mild expletive, literally "by Bacchus". in English: By Jove!, gosh!
- per bocca: (Italian) by mouth
- buca: (Italian) oit, hole
- bucca: (Old English) he-goat
- bucca: (Latin) cheek
- Buccas: (buck as) from a letter, written in s simple code, from Thomas Sheridan, an Irish actor, to Jonathan Swift, July 15, 1735, "As unde I eat off buccas fatas mi arsis." (A-Sunday I ate of a buck as fat as my arse is.) There is are hundreds of such letters between the two.