chorro
See also: choro
Romani
editAdjective
editchorro (feminine chorri, plural chorre)
- Anglicized form of ćorro
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editchorro m (plural chorros)
- flow; jet
- tap; faucet
- (colloquial, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic) ton, tons; bunch; pile
- Synonym: montón
- (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador) diarrhea
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Portuguese: jorro
See also
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from Romani ćorro (“poor”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
editchorro m (plural chorros)
- (Chile, slang) a poor person, ghetto, a criminal
- (Chile, colloquial) coin purse
- (Argentina, colloquial, Lunfardo) thief
Further reading
edit- “chorro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “chorro” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010.
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- Spanish onomatopoeias
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Mexican Spanish
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