taucó

Macanese

Alternative forms

• tacó, tacós, taucóc

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 豆角 (dau⁶ gok³).

Noun

taucó

1. asparagus bean, yardlong bean, Chinese long bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)

   Synonym: fijám-chicote

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#fijamchicote
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tacó, tacós?, taucó, taucóc”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 538