buckwheats

Noun

buckwheat (usually uncountable, plural buckwheats)

1. (usually) An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
2. (usually) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
   • I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. I'll need some buckwheat flapjack mix.2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62
3. (US, Western, usually) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
4. (slang, usually) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
   • Mafia mythology has many believe that the method used to eliminate a person is often a reflection of the respect for that individual. In this case, the Profaci gunman must have witnessed a "buckwheat's" execution, where an example is being made of the victim by inflicting pain for a prolonged...2000, Olindo Romeo Chiocca, Mobsters and Thugs: Quotes from the Underworld, page 17
5. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) The curly hair of a black person.
6. (slang, usually) Pubic hair.

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