chamaco
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Classical Nahuatl chamahuac (“plump”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chamaco m (plural chamacos, feminine chamaca, feminine plural chamacas)
- (informal, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico) a boy or teenager; a male youth
- 1967, Antonio Domínguez Hidalgo, Lo ineludible y otros cruentos:
- Extrañamente seducido por aquel chamaco se dejó llevar por algunas callejuelas del barrio.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (derogatory, Mexico) a kid (in general)
Further reading
[edit]- “chamaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
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