quiche

Meanings

Noun

• A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.

Adjective

• Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring.

Origin

• Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche ("cake"), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog-, whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ). Compare Persian کوکو. More at cake.
• Invented for the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".