pelo

Meaning

1. (masculine) hair (a single hair)
2. (masculine) hair (all hair on the head)
3. (masculine) fur

hair’s-breadth

head hair

soft hair

Vello

cabeyo

pelamen

la enamorada

cerdas de caballo

Frequency

Hyphenated as

pe‧lo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpelo/

Inherited from Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European *pil-. Compare English pile (“fine, short hair of certain animals”).

Cognate with English

pile

New

pelar

to peel (fruits, vegetables)
to skin (an animal)
to shell (nuts, shellfish)
to unwrap
to pluck (a bird)
to cut the hair of
(transitive) to spread negative gossip, run down, criticise somebody
to exfoliate
(colloquial) to steal
(colloquial) to fleece
(Mexico, colloquial, especially, transitive) to notice someone, to pay attention to someone
(reflexive, transitive, vulgar) to matter
(reflexive) to have one's hair cut
(reflexive) to lose one's hair, to go bald
(reflexive) to peel (of skin, from the sun, etc.)
(reflexive) to fray (rope, wire)
to strip (to remove the insulation from a wire/cable)
(reflexive) (Chile) to steal
(reflexive) (Chile) to flirt
(reflexive) (Chile) to make out with a stranger at a social event

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Sentences

An user

Suele confundirse con un
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Chihuahua sin pelo .

It is often mistaken for a hairless Chihuahua.