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say it: keesh
quiche is a noun meaning "a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala". It is pronounced /ˈkiʃ/ — keesh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala
a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)
the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quiche come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.