hoyuelo

Spanish

Etymology

From hoyo (“hole”) +‎ -uelo, literally “little hole”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oˈʝwelo/ [oˈʝwe.lo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /oˈʝwelo/ [oˈʝwe.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /oˈʃwelo/ [oˈʃwe.lo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /oˈʒwelo/ [oˈʒwe.lo]

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• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: ho‧yue‧lo

Noun

hoyuelo m (plural hoyuelos)

1. dimple

Further reading

• hoyuelo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “hoyuelo”, 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