mucho

From Spanish mucho. Unrelated to English much.

mucho (not comparable)

1. (often humorous) Much; a great deal of.
   • 1978, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein (lyrics and music), “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie, Chrysalis Records:

     Seemed like the real thing, only to find / Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

   • 1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.

mucho (not comparable)

1. (often humorous) very
   • 2014 November 7, Hadley Freeman, “God save us from the philosemitism of Burchill, Amis and Mensch”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     And this makes sense because, as with Burchill, Amis’s philosemitism is quasi-sexual and mucho ridiculous.

• hocum, mouch

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.xɔ/

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• Rhymes: -uxɔ
• Syllabification: mu‧cho

mucho f

1. vocative singular of mucha

Inherited from Old Spanish mucho, from Latin multus (“much, many”), from the Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tos (“crumbled, crumpled”, past passive participle). Compare the Portuguese muito (“much, many, a lot”). Unrelated to English much, which is related to archaic maño (“big”) (the second element in tamaño).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmut͡ʃo/ [ˈmu.t͡ʃo]

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• Rhymes: -utʃo
• Syllabification: mu‧cho

mucho m sg (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)

1. (in the singular) much, a lot of

   No tengo mucho dinero.

   I don't have much money.

   Tengo mucho dinero.

   I have a lot of money.

2. (in the plural) many, a lot of

   Tengo muchas monedas.

   I have many coins.

mucho

1. much, a lot, far, way

   Es mucho más difícil salir que entrar.

   It is way harder to get out than to get in.

   La situación real era mucho más complicada de lo que se sugería en el documento.

   The real situation was far more complicated than was suggested in the document.

2. long, a long time

• un poco

mucho m (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)

1. a lot, many

• bastante
• más
• muy

• “mucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28