cockroach

Significado (Inglés)

1. Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
2. (offensive, slang) A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
3. (Australia, derogatory, especially, humorous, slang) A person from New South Wales.
4. (Australia, obsolete, slang) A hard lump of brown sugar.

Sinónimos

roach

insect

roaches

bug

🐛

black beetle

blackbeetle

dictyopterous insect

oriental cockroach

oriental roach

croton bug

beetle

🪲

coleopteron

black-beetle

metallic

oil beetle

inyenzi

Asiatic cockroach

Traducións

cucaracha

🪳

cafard

blatte

🪳

kakkerlak

🪳

barata

🪳

scarafaggio

🪳

cancrelat

🪳

Schabe

blatta

🪳

Kakerlake

🪳

κατσαρίδα

Kakerlak

Küchenschabe

🪳

blatta

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈkɑkɹoʊt͡ʃ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, by means of folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha.