chulo
Galician edit
Adjective edit
chulo (feminine chula, masculine plural chulos, feminine plural chulas)
Noun edit
chulo m (plural chulos)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ulu
- Hyphenation: chu‧lo
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish chulo.[1][2]
Adjective edit
chulo (feminine chula, masculine plural chulos, feminine plural chulas)
- (of language or words) coarse; vulgar; obscene
- Synonyms: obsceno, vulgar, de baixo calão
- (of people or their actions and attitude) vulgar; obscene; distasteful
Noun edit
chulo m (plural chulos)
- a term in foul language, profanity
- (Portugal) pimp (prostitution solicitor)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
chulo
References edit
- ^ “chulo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “chulo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian ciullo, a now-obsolete shortening of Italian fanciullo, a diminutive based ultimately on Latin īnfāns.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
chulo (feminine chula, masculine plural chulos, feminine plural chulas, superlative chulísimo)
- (of actions) cute, pretty, lovely, cool, nifty
- Synonyms: mono, cuqui, bonito, genial; see also Thesaurus:guay
- (Spain, colloquial, of people) cocky (overly confident, arrogant and boastful)
- 2017 March 18, Elvira Lindo, “Blablacar, el sainete”, in El País[1]:
- Después de que un tipo se pusiera chulo en el tren porque le pedí que hablara más bajo por el móvil, decidí que mi campaña por el buen uso del celular había concluido.
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- (Chile, colloquial) ordinary, common, vulgar, rascal
Usage notes edit
- Chulo is to define actions and means cute, but in people it means cocky. To describe an action as cocky one uses chulesco. For example, "una jugada chula" means "a cute play" while "una jugada chulesca" means "a cocky play".
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Noun edit
chulo m (plural chulos)
- (Spain) pimp
- (Venezuela, colloquial) freeloader, mooch
- Synonyms: gorrón, parásito, lambucio, golillero, oportunista
- (bullfighting) a bullfighter's assistant
Further reading edit
- “chulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “chulo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 405