Meaning
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 not 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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Hyphenated as
pe‧lo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpelo/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European *pil-. Compare English pile (“fine, short hair of certain animals”).
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