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cockroach

Significado (Inglês)

  1. Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
  2. (offensive, slang) A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
  3. (Australia, derogatory, especially, humorous, slang) A person from New South Wales.
  4. (Australia, obsolete, slang) A hard lump of brown sugar.

Sinônimos

blackbeetle

dictyopterous insect

oriental roach

croton bug

coleopteron

black-beetle

inyenzi

Asiatic cockroach

Freqüência

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈkɑkɹoʊt͡ʃ/
Etimologia (Inglês)

From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, by means of folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha.

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