"chancho" meaning in Spanish

See chancho in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃant͡ʃo/, [ˈt͡ʃãnʲ.t͡ʃo] Forms: chancha [feminine], chanchos [masculine, plural], chanchas [feminine, plural]
Rhymes: -antʃo Etymology: Etymology tree Spanish sanch Spanish sancho Spanish chancho From sancho (via assimilation), from sanch, used to call pigs. Etymology templates: {{ety|es|:from|sancho|tree=1}} Etymology tree Spanish sanch Spanish sancho Spanish chancho, {{ety|es|:from|sancho|tree=1}} Etymology tree Spanish sanch Spanish sancho Spanish chancho Head templates: {{es-adj}} chancho (feminine chancha, masculine plural chanchos, feminine plural chanchas)
  1. (Latin America, figuratively) dirty Tags: Latin-America, figuratively Synonyms: sucio, cerdo Derived forms: chanchada, chanchullo, chanchito [diminutive], a todo chancho
    Sense id: en-chancho-es-adj-0MksdkxW Categories (other): Latin American Spanish, Spanish entries with etymology trees, Spanish entries with etymon, Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Even-toed ungulates, Meats Disambiguation of Spanish entries with etymology trees: 100 0 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with etymon: 100 0 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of Even-toed ungulates: 93 7 Disambiguation of Meats: 100 0

Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃant͡ʃo/, [ˈt͡ʃãnʲ.t͡ʃo] Forms: chanchos [plural], chancha [feminine], chanchas [feminine, plural]
Rhymes: -antʃo Etymology: Etymology tree Spanish sanch Spanish sancho Spanish chancho From sancho (via assimilation), from sanch, used to call pigs. Etymology templates: {{ety|es|:from|sancho|tree=1}} Etymology tree Spanish sanch Spanish sancho Spanish chancho, {{ety|es|:from|sancho|tree=1}} Etymology tree Spanish sanch Spanish sancho Spanish chancho Head templates: {{es-noun|m|f=+}} chancho m (plural chanchos, feminine chancha, feminine plural chanchas)
  1. (Latin America) pig Tags: Latin-America, masculine Synonyms: cerdo, puerco
    Sense id: en-chancho-es-noun-8LjJ2E3S Categories (other): Latin American Spanish

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "assimilation",
      "assimilation"
    ],
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho\nFrom sancho (via assimilation), from sanch, used to call pigs.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chanchos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chancha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chanchas",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "f": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "chancho m (plural chanchos, feminine chancha, feminine plural chanchas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "chan‧cho"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "chan‧cho"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin American Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              81,
              89
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:",
          "text": "Decía el pelirrojo con la boca llena de pan:\n—Todos los inviernos carneamos tres chanchos para la casa. Los demás se venden.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pig"
      ],
      "id": "en-chancho-es-noun-8LjJ2E3S",
      "links": [
        [
          "pig",
          "pig"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Latin America) pig"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cerdo"
        },
        {
          "word": "puerco"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃant͡ʃo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃãnʲ.t͡ʃo]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-antʃo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chancho"
}

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "assimilation",
      "assimilation"
    ],
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho\nFrom sancho (via assimilation), from sanch, used to call pigs.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chancha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chanchos",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chanchas",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chancho (feminine chancha, masculine plural chanchos, feminine plural chanchas)",
      "name": "es-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "chan‧cho"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "chan‧cho"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin American Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Even-toed ungulates",
          "orig": "es:Even-toed ungulates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Meats",
          "orig": "es:Meats",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "chanchada"
        },
        {
          "word": "chanchullo"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "chanchito"
        },
        {
          "word": "a todo chancho"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dirty"
      ],
      "id": "en-chancho-es-adj-0MksdkxW",
      "links": [
        [
          "dirty",
          "dirty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Latin America, figuratively) dirty"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sucio"
        },
        {
          "word": "cerdo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃant͡ʃo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃãnʲ.t͡ʃo]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-antʃo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chancho"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Pages using etymon with no ID",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "Pages with etymon",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/antʃo",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/antʃo/2 syllables",
    "Spanish 2-syllable words",
    "Spanish adjectives",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with etymology trees",
    "Spanish entries with etymon",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish masculine nouns",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "es:Even-toed ungulates",
    "es:Meats"
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "assimilation",
      "assimilation"
    ],
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho\nFrom sancho (via assimilation), from sanch, used to call pigs.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chanchos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chancha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chanchas",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "f": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "chancho m (plural chanchos, feminine chancha, feminine plural chanchas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "chan‧cho"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "chan‧cho"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin American Spanish",
        "Requests for translations of Spanish quotations",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              81,
              89
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:",
          "text": "Decía el pelirrojo con la boca llena de pan:\n—Todos los inviernos carneamos tres chanchos para la casa. Los demás se venden.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pig"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pig",
          "pig"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Latin America) pig"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cerdo"
        },
        {
          "word": "puerco"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃant͡ʃo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃãnʲ.t͡ʃo]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-antʃo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chancho"
}

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    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
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    "Pages with etymon",
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    "Rhymes:Spanish/antʃo/2 syllables",
    "Spanish 2-syllable words",
    "Spanish adjectives",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with etymology trees",
    "Spanish entries with etymon",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish masculine nouns",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "es:Even-toed ungulates",
    "es:Meats"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chanchada"
    },
    {
      "word": "chanchullo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "chanchito"
    },
    {
      "word": "a todo chancho"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "sancho",
      "sancho#Spanish"
    ],
    [
      "assimilation",
      "assimilation"
    ],
    [
      "sanch",
      "sanch#Spanish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": ":from",
        "3": "sancho",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nSpanish sanch\nSpanish sancho\nSpanish chancho\nFrom sancho (via assimilation), from sanch, used to call pigs.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chancha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chanchos",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chanchas",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chancho (feminine chancha, masculine plural chanchos, feminine plural chanchas)",
      "name": "es-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "chan‧cho"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "chan‧cho"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin American Spanish"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dirty"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dirty",
          "dirty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Latin America, figuratively) dirty"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sucio"
        },
        {
          "word": "cerdo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃant͡ʃo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃãnʲ.t͡ʃo]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-antʃo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chancho"
}

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