caoutchouc

• cahootchie

Borrowed from French caoutchouc, from Spanish caucho, from Quechua kawchu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊt͡ʃʊk/, /ˈkaʊt͡ʃuk/

caoutchouc (countable and uncountable, plural caoutchoucs)

1. latex; natural rubber
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 299:

     Many a passer-by thought Miss Arundel was listening to some subject of most touching interest: his Lordship was only detailing the benefit he derived one wet day from his caoutchouc cloak.

• mineral caoutchouc

• “caoutchouc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Spanish cauchuc (an early variant of caucho), from Quechua kawchu. The final -c was formerly variably pronounced or silent, but is now always silent.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ut.ʃu/

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caoutchouc m (plural caoutchoucs)

1. rubber (natural and synthetic)

   Synonym: gomme

2. (Louisiana, Cajun) plastic

   Synonym: plastique

• caoutchouter
• caoutchouteux
• caoutchoutier
• caoutchoutique

• → Bulgarian: ка́учук (káučuk)
• → Czech: kaučuk
• → German: Kautschuk
• → Esperanto: kaŭĉuko
• → Italian: caucciù
• → Romanian: cauciuc
• → Russian: каучу́к (kaučúk)
• → Turkish: kauçuk
• → Vietnamese: cao su

• “caoutchouc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.