huevo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicle”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.
Noun edit
huevo (plural huevos)
- (Castilianism) Egg.
- 2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155:
- Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.
- 2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, →ISBN:
- Day or night, huevos has long been a personal favorite, but they inevitably put me into a food coma. To lighten the load, I've slimmed down to just one huevo, and instead amped up the ratio of black beans (simmered in a saucepan, not refried, with aromatics and spices).
- 2015, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tijuana Book of the Dead, →ISBN, page 3:
- you, who can't believe your Ma rose at 4:45 to fry one huevo and a slice of bologna laid on corn tortilla—border benedict— here's your chance to drag home $80 a week, for her electric.
- 2016, Dr. Brady Barr, Jennifer Keats Curtis, After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary, →ISBN:
- It is hard to believe Jefe was only as big as a candy bar when he first came out of his huevo.
- (Castilianism, usually in the plural) Testicle.
- 1988, Charles Bowden, Blue Desert, →ISBN, page 3:
- The horse has no huevos. The horse is a mare.
- 1995, Jack Curtis, Hide-Out Canyon, →ISBN, page 137:
- "I'd give my left huevo for any one of them," Leonardo said. "But . . . but how?"
- 1997, Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa, →ISBN, page 11:
- They were giant wooly monsters with huge curl horns and yellow eyes that saw everything. And below hung big huevos.
- 1997, Marc Talbert, A Sunburned Prayer, →ISBN, page i:
- But lately his brother had started walking as if he had baseballs packed in his pants instead of huevos the size of a hummingbird's.
- 2009, Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show:
- Go stand naked in front of a male plastic surgeon. “One breast's lower than the other, we'll have to fix that...” Oh yeah, Doc? Let's see what you got. One huevo's hanging lower than the other.
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Noun edit
huevo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish hueuo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈw̝ebo/ [ˈw̝e.β̞o]
Audio (Spain): (file)
- IPA(key): (dialectal) /ˈɡwebo/ [ˈɡwe.β̞o], /ˈbwebo/ [ˈbwe.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -ebo
- Syllabification: hue‧vo
Noun edit
huevo m (plural huevos)
- egg
- poner un huevo ― to lay an egg
- 1992, Dr. Seuss, translated by Aída E. Marcuse, Huevos Verdes con Jamón:
- ¿Te gustan los huevos verdes con jamón?
- Do you like green eggs with ham?
- spawn
- Synonym: hueva
- (vulgar, slang) testicle
- (vulgar, slang, in the plural) guts, balls, courage
- Synonyms: agallas, cojones
- tener huevos ― to have balls
- (biology) zygote
- Synonym: cigoto
- (biology) ovule
- Synonym: óvulo
Derived terms edit
- a huevo
- a puro huevo
- al freír de los huevos lo verá
- al freír los huevos
- blanco de huevo
- calientahuevos
- coger por los huevos
- cómeme los huevos
- costar un huevo
- cuando seas padre comerás huevos
- de a huevo
- diente de huevo
- estar hasta los huevos
- gallina de los huevos de oro
- huevazo
- huevito
- huevo batido (“beaten egg, egg wash”)
- huevo cocido
- huevo de Colón
- huevo de faltriquera
- huevo de gallo
- huevo de Juanelo
- huevo de Pascua
- huevo de zurcir
- huevo duro
- huevo en cáscara
- huevo escalfado
- huevo estrellado
- huevo frito
- huevo pasado por agua
- huevón
- huevos al plato
- huevos dobles quemados
- huevos motuleños
- huevos picados
- huevos revueltos
- huevos rotos
- importar un huevo
- manda huevos
- pisando huevos
- ponche de huevo
- sacar los huevos
- sal quiere el huevo
- sórbete ese huevo tener huevos
- tocar los huevos a alguien
- un huevo
- y un huevo
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Further reading edit
- “huevo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014