Masculine
pitufo
Meaning
- (masculine) smurf
- (colloquial, masculine) small child
- (colloquial, masculine) municipal policeman
- (Mexico, colloquial, masculine) 20-peso note (after the blue color of the note)
- (Andalusia, masculine) Small bread rolls, approximately 60g, 10 to 12 cm long and 6 or 7 cm wide.
Translations
Frequency
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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