BUTSE

This word is from the Spanish buche (meaning: bird’s crop). In a bird’s digestive system, the crop is an expanded, muscular pouch near the gullet or throat.

butsé: crop or first stomach of a bird

As a slang word, butsé refers to anger.

nagpuputok ang butse
the gizzard is bursting

pumuputok ang butse
‘bursting the ribs’

pumutok ang butse
flipped one’s lid

kumukulo ang dugo
the blood is boiling

gatungan ang galit
add fuel to the anger

Fried rice-flour balls that the Chinese call jian dui or matuan covered with sesame seeds are called buchi or butsi in the Philippines.

MGA KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG

butse: balumbalunan ng mga manok

butse: isang uri ng kakanin

butseron: tsitsaron na hindi balat ng baboy kundi butse ng manok

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