tocho
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]tocho m (plural tochos)
- club (heavy stick used as a weapon)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]tocho
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tusculus, diminutive of Latin tuscus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tocho (feminine tocha, masculine plural tochos, feminine plural tochas)
- (colloquial, El Salvador) mean (person)
- Synonyms: miserable, mala gente, (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile) mala onda
- ¡No seás tocho! ― Don't be so mean!
- Esa es una gran tocha. ― She's a very mean girl.
- (colloquial) clumsy
- Synonym: torpe
- (colloquial) big, giant
- Synonym: grandulón
Further reading
[edit]- “tocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “tocho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 527
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