tuco
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See also: tučo
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tuco (uncountable)
- A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
See also
[edit]etymologically unrelated
Further reading
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain.
Adjective
[edit]tuco (feminine tuca, masculine plural tucos, feminine plural tucas)
- (Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Venezuela) one-armed
Noun
[edit]tuco m (plural tucos)
- (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) tuco (sauce)
- (Asturias) pork bone, hard thing
- (Asturias, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico) stump
- (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama) piece of wood
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]tuco m (plural tucos)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]tuco m (plural tucos)
- (Peru) a kind of owl
Further reading
[edit]- “tuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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