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chico (plural chicos)
- (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
Borrowed from Spanish chicozapote (through a regional abbreviation), from Nahuatl xicotzapotl. Cognate of chicle.
chico (plural chicos)
- The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.
Perhaps from Spanish choclo, influded by chico.
chico (plural chicos)
- (American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.
Guyanese Creole English
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chico
- Samad, Daizal R., Harripersaud, Ashwannie (2023) A Dictionary of Guyanese Words and Expressions, Blue Rose Publishers, →ISBN, page 36
Borrowed from Italian cicca.[1][2]
chico m (plural chicos)
- (Portugal, regional) pig
- (colloquial) period (menstruation)
- (Brazil, regional, colloquial) ass (the anus)
- ^ “chico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “chico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Indirectly related to Latin ciccum (“insignificant thing; trifle”); found in several Romance languages as an expressive creation.[1]
chico (feminine chica, masculine plural chicos, feminine plural chicas)
chico m (plural chicos, feminine chica, feminine plural chicas)
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- “chico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chiʼik.
chico m (plural chicos)
- (Mexico) white-nosed coati (Nasua Narica)
- (Mexico) raccoon (Procyon lotor)
- Synonym: mapache
- Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 583
chico (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜃᜓ)
- Alternative spelling of tsiko