shashaco

• chachaco

Borrowed from Nahuatl [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ʃaˈʃako/ [ʃaˈʃa.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: sha‧sha‧co

shashaco (feminine shashaca, masculine plural shashacos, feminine plural shashacas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala) pockmarked because of smallpox, especially the face.
2. (colloquial, El Salvador, of a surface) rough
3. (colloquial, El Salvador) missing at least one tooth

   Synonym: cholco

• “shashaco”, 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
• Tesis estudio del sustrato lingüístico indígena en el español salvadoreño