cutuco

Portuguese

Verb

cutuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cutucar

Spanish

Etymology

From Nahuatl cutuche (“cut, chopped”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈtuko/ [kuˈt̪u.ko]
• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: cu‧tu‧co

Noun

cutuco m (plural cutucos)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) piece, bit
2. (colloquial, El Salvador) Mexican calabash (Crescentia alata)

   Synonyms: morro, jícaro

Further reading

• “cutuco”, 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
• “cutuco” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010