machote
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]machote m (plural machotes)
- (colloquial) a tough man; a badass
- 2015 November 19, “Columna”, in El País[1]:
- Lo que no sabe nadie, y si lo sabemos nos lo callamos, es que algunos de esos machotes son terroristas, y no siempre suicidas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Cantabria) red porgy
- Synonym: pargo
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Nahuatl machiotl (“example, model”)
Noun
[edit]machote m (plural machotes)
- (Central America, Mexico) model (a successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.)
- Synonym: modelo
- (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras) draft (an early version of a written work)
- Synonym: borrador
Further reading
[edit]- “machote”, 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
- machote | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ote
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