chato

Meaning

Adj

1. (comparable) flat
2. (colloquial, comparable) boring
3. (colloquial, comparable) annoying
4. (colloquial, comparable) shameful
5. (colloquial, comparable) disappointing

Noun

1. (colloquial, masculine) bore (a boring, uninteresting person)
2. (colloquial, masculine) an annoying person
3. (masculine) pubic louse

Hyphenated as

cha‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃa.tu/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, inherited from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Doublet of prato and plati-.