chico

Borrowed from Spanish chico.

chico (plural chicos)

1. (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)

1. The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.

Perhaps from Spanish choclo, influded by chico.

chico (plural chicos)

1. (American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.

 

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chico

1. chewing gum

• 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]

• Homophone: Chico
• Hyphenation: chi‧co

chico m (plural chicos)

1. (Portugal, regional) pig
2. (colloquial) period (menstruation)
3. (Brazil, regional, colloquial) ass (the anus)

Indirectly related to Latin ciccum (“insignificant thing; trifle”); found in several Romance languages as an expressive creation.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiko/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ko]

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• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: chi‧co

chico (feminine chica, masculine plural chicos, feminine plural chicas)

1. small

   Synonym: pequeño

   Antonym: grande

• → Ladino: chiko, ג׳יקו
• → Papiamentu: chikí, chikitu

chico m (plural chicos, feminine chica, feminine plural chicas)

1. boy; kid

   Synonyms: cabro, chamaco, chaval, chavo, muchacho, niño

• → English: chico
• → Ladino: chiko, ג׳יקו

• “chico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chiʼik.

chico m (plural chicos)

1. (Mexico) white-nosed coati (Nasua Narica)
2. (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)

1. Alternative spelling of tsiko