chuquillo
Spanish
Etymology
Likely from chuco (“dirty”) + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃuˈkiʝo/ [t͡ʃuˈki.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃuˈkiʎo/ [t͡ʃuˈki.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃuˈkiʃo/ [t͡ʃuˈki.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃuˈkiʒo/ [t͡ʃuˈki.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: chu‧qui‧llo
Noun
chuquillo m (plural chuquillos)
- (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala) synonym of shuquía (stench, malodor, especially because of putrefaction)
Further reading
- “chuquillo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010