cacho
Meaning
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- (colloquial, masculine) piece
- (Latin-America, masculine) horn
- (Chile, Peru, colloquial, masculine) shit, lemon, bomb (defective, inadequate or useless item or person)
- (Chile, colloquial, masculine) nuisance, some annoying task or work
Synonyms
goatfish
mújol rojo
cachuelo
cigarrilo casero de marihuana
cigarrillo de mariguana
Frequency
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”).
New
cachar
- to catch (to intercept)
- (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) to catch, to get (to grasp mentally: perceive and understand)
- (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) to find out, spy out, peek
- (Chile, Peru, vulgar) to have sex
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