Masculine

sacamantecas

Meaning

bogeyman

Concepts

Synonyms

Translations

Bonhomme sept-heures

tonton macoute

père Fouettard

Hyphenated as
sa‧ca‧man‧te‧cas
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sakamanˈtekas/
Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of saca (“to remove”) + mantecas (“fats, lard”) (one story was that the sacamantecas kidnapped children to make an ointment from their fat).

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