cacho

Meaning

cachar

  1. to catch (to intercept)
  2. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) to catch, to get (to grasp mentally: perceive and understand)
  3. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) to find out, spy out, peek
  4. (Chile, Peru, vulgar) to have sex

Frequency

36k
Hyphenated as
ca‧cho
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkat͡ʃo/
Etymology

In summary

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *cacclus < *cacculus, from Latin cāccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Portuguese caco (“piece of pottery”).

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