Masculine

pitufo

Meaning

  1. (masculine) smurf
  2. (colloquial, masculine) small child
  3. (colloquial, masculine) municipal policeman
  4. (Mexico, colloquial, masculine) 20-peso note (after the blue color of the note)
  5. (Andalusia, masculine) Small bread rolls, approximately 60g, 10 to 12 cm long and 6 or 7 cm wide.

Translations

Frequency

29k
Hyphenated as
pi‧tu‧fo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/piˈtufo/
Etymology

In summary

Coined after pituso. The bread rolls sense comes from a comparison to the small size of the smurfs, a popular cartoon at the time.

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