Par Buccas

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  • par: (French) by
  • 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.