chancho
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
chancho m (plural chanchos)
- (informal) bite (act of biting)
- (informal) nibble, bite (a piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting)
- Synonym: petisco
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
chancho m (plural chanchos)
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
chancho
References edit
- “chancho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chancho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “chancho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From sancho, from sanch, used to call pigs.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chancho m (plural chanchos, feminine chancha, feminine plural chanchas)
- (Latin America) pig
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Decía el pelirrojo con la boca llena de pan:
—Todos los inviernos carneamos tres chanchos para la casa. Los demás se venden.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective edit
chancho (feminine chancha, masculine plural chanchos, feminine plural chanchas)
Derived terms edit
- chanchada
- chanchullo
- (diminutives): chanchito
- a todo chancho
Further reading edit
- “chancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014