pego
English
editEtymology
editUncertain.
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editNoun
editpego (plural pegos)
- (archaic, slang) The penis.
- 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 758:
- Lately, he has come to dread Sugarʼs overtures of love, for his pego has remained flaccid when he would most wish to have use of it.
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Esperanto
editEtymology
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Noun
editpego (accusative singular pegon, plural pegoj, accusative plural pegojn)
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editGalician
editEtymology 1
editPerhaps from a non-Celtic substrate language related to Lusitanian, from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to paint, mark, embroider”).
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editAdjective
editpego (feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)
- variegated
- Synonyms: apigarado, multicolor, pégaro, pinto
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editReferences
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pego”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Etymology 2
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Ido
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editpego (plural pegi)
Portuguese
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- Rhymes: -eɡu
- Hyphenation: pe‧go
Noun
editpego m (plural pegos)
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese peego, from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). Doublet of pélago.
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- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: pe‧go
Noun
editpego m (plural pegos)
- the bottom of the sea
- the deepest point of a body of water
- an underwater cave
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: pe‧go
Verb
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Etymology 4
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Participle
editpego (short participle, feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)
- (Brazil) past participle of pegar
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editpego (Cyrillic spelling пего)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editpego m (plural pegos)
- (card games) a trick consisting of taking two cards from the pack instead of one
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Further reading
edit- “pego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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