pucho
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From carapucho, from caparucho, from capa (“cape, cloak; cap”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pucho m (plural puchos)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pucho m (plural puchos, feminine pucha, feminine plural puchas)
- calf
- 1837, anonymous author, Coloquio na pontella da Chaínsa:
- anque fora para xûntar puchos para á cortaduria non rompia mais sapatos, nin levaba mais molladuras das que levou de casa en casa dos eleutores
- not even if it was to gather calves for the butcher shop had he broken more shoes or taken more soakings than what he took from house to house of the electors
References edit
- “pucho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pucho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pucho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Quechua puchu (“remainder”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pucho m (plural puchos)
- (Chile, Peru, Argentina, colloquial) cigarette
- Synonym: cigarrillo
- (Latin America) butt (used cigarette)
- Synonym: colilla
Verb edit
pucho
Further reading edit
- “pucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014