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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian battifondo, itself a dialect form of toccafondo, a term used in games.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /batiˈfondo/
- Rhymes: -ondo
- Syllabification: ba‧ti‧fon‧do
Noun
batifondo m (plural batifondos)
- (Argentina, dated) A game of chance consisting of placing bets on players in a game of billiards.
- (Rioplatense, Paraguay) prolonged uproar or ruckus
References
- ^ Javier Simón Casas (1991) “Algunos Italianismos en el Lunfardo [Some Italianisms in Lunfardo]”, in Estudios de Lingüística de Universidad de Alicante [Alicante University Linguistics Studies] (in Spanish), pages 30-31
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