Crossword-Solution: BUCCA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The bwoat went down wi' all hands, but us flinged a bottle to Bucca for en to wash ashore wi' the news.

All is bustle and business at home in expectation of his return: domus interea secura patellas iam lavat et bucca foculum excitat et sonat unctis striglibus et pleno componit lintea guto.

There is in the Greek Anthology a similar epigram by Nicarchus, which has thus been translated by Grotius: Non culo, Theodore, minus tibi foetida bucca est Noscera discrimen sit sapientis opus.

The child's game-- "Buck, buck, How many fingers do I hold up?" was known in ancient Rome as _bucca_, though it would be audacious to infer that it arrived in Britain since the Norman Conquest.

Seeing was believing, and when they showed him a Bucca 'twould be soon enough for him to b'lieve there was such things." And he repeated this every time the little men were mentioned.