chicote

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chicote f (plural chicotes)

1. Alternative form of chicotte

• “chicote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French chicot.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈkɔte/ [t͡ʃiˈkɔ.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: chi‧co‧te

chicote m (plural chicotes)

1. (nautical) extreme of a rope

   Synonym: cabo

2. (nautical, by extension) rope

   Synonym: cabo

3. cord
4. (dated) cigar butt

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chicote”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chicote”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chicote”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: chi‧co‧te

Possibly from French chicot (“stump; stub”) or from Nahuatl xicohtli (“a kind of large bee”).

chicote m (plural chicotes)

1. whip (flexible instrument used to create cracking sounds or for striking)

   Synonyms: açoite, látego, relho, habena

• chicotinho (diminutive), chicotezinho (diminutive)
• chicotão (augmentative)
• efeito chicote

chicote

1. inflection of chicotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈkote/ [t͡ʃiˈko.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: chi‧co‧te

From chico +‎ -ote.

chicote m (plural chicotes, feminine chicota, feminine plural chicotas)

1. (colloquial) robust young person
2. (Havana, slang) robust foot odor of a young person, esp. a preadolescent male

Borrowed from French chicot.

chicote m (plural chicotes)

1. cigarette butt
2. (Latin America) whip

   Synonyms: látigo, azote, fusta

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