chinchillete
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /t͡ʃint͡ʃiˈʝete/ [t͡ʃĩnʲ.t͡ʃiˈʝe.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /t͡ʃint͡ʃiˈʎete/ [t͡ʃĩnʲ.t͡ʃiˈʎe.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /t͡ʃint͡ʃiˈʃete/ [t͡ʃĩnʲ.t͡ʃiˈʃe.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /t͡ʃint͡ʃiˈʒete/ [t͡ʃĩnʲ.t͡ʃiˈʒe.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ete
- Syllabification: chin‧chi‧lle‧te
Interjection
[edit]¡chinchillete!
- (colloquial, Costa Rica) Used to offer a gift or favor to the first person who responds with "yo, machete" (me, machete).
- Synonym: (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) chinchilete
Further reading
[edit]- “chinchillete” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010