pollero
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From pollo + -ero, or from Latin pullārius.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: po‧lle‧ro
Noun edit
pollero m (plural polleros, feminine pollera, feminine plural polleras)
- one who raises and sells chickens for a living
- (El Salvador, Mexico) smuggler of illegal immigrants
- Trabajar de pollero era legal en El Salvador a finales de los 70.
- To work as a coyote was legal in El Salvador during the late 70s.
- 2014-07-13,, Óscar Martínez with reports from Jimmy Alvarado, "Los niños no se van: se los llevan", El Faro, newspaper, URL:http://www.elfaro.net/es/201407/noticias/15683/ link, accessed 2014-07-18
- Es un coyote, un pollero, que ha visto los diferentes tiempos de la migración [...]
- He is a coyote, a smuggler of illegal immigrants, who has seen different epochs of migration [...]
- Synonym: coyote
Noun edit
pollero m (plural polleros)
- chicken coop; place where chickens are raised
- Synonym: gallinero
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pollero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014