bolo

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English

bolo machetes

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

Etymology 1

From Philippine Spanish bolo.

Noun

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bolo (plural bolos)

  1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
  2. (attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
    • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 141:
      He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
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Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

  1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

Etymology 2

Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

  1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

  1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Etymology 3

From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).

Noun

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bolo (plural bolos)

  1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
Derived terms

Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

  1. (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

Etymology 4

An acronym of Be on the lookout.

Alternative forms

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

  1. (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
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Bambara

Etymology

Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan bólo.

Noun

bolo

  1. (anatomy) arm, hand

References

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. sand lance (Ammodytes)
    Synonym: areeiro

Etymology 2

From bola (“piece of bread”), from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

Bolos

Pronunciation

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. bun, roll
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:
      Para esto ual o ouo torrado ataa que se faça duro et depois tollelle a casca et faz tal como bollo
      For this you must use egg, roasted till its hard; remove then the shell and make a roll with it
  2. piece of bread
    • 1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 449:
      daredes hun dia de seara de cada anno en a nosa granja de Vales, e hun bolo de triigo
      and you'll give a day of work each year at our farm of Vales, and a piece of wheat bread
  3. ball of butter
    Synonym: pela
  4. lump
    Synonym: grumo
  5. clod
    Synonym: terrón
  6. pebble
    Synonym: croio
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References

  • “bolo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “bolo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “bolo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “bolo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowl, French bol, German Bowle, Spanish bol.

Pronunciation

Noun

bolo (plural boli)

  1. bowl

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod, lump”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlo
  • Hyphenation: bò‧lo

Noun

bolo m (plural boli)

  1. bolus
  2. cud

Anagrams

Javanese

Noun

bolo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bala.

Koasati

Noun

bolo

  1. bream

Lingala

Etymology

From French bore.

Noun

bolo class 9 (plural bolo class 10, colloquial plural babolo class 2)

  1. (chemistry) boron

Macanese

bolo

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese bolo.

Pronunciation

Noun

bolo

  1. Alternative form of bôlo: cake

Derived terms

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Portuguese

bolo (1.1)

Etymology 1

From bola. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -olu
  • Hyphenation: bo‧lo

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (cooking) cake
    1. dessert made with dough and sugar; common in celebrations
    2. any of various snacks made with dough, both sweet and salty
      Synonym: bolinho
  2. bunch, heap, mass (load of some material or of beings)
    Synonyms: monte, amontoado
    1. a bunch of money
  3. prize, reward
    Synonyms: prêmio, recompensa
  4. (Brazil) something said or done to mislead or deceive
    Synonyms: enganação, burla
  5. (Brazil) disarray, disorder chaos
    Synonyms: desordem, caos, confusão
  6. (Brazil, slang) the act of standing someone up (missing an appointment)
    Synonym: furo
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: bolu
  • Kabuverdianu: bolu
  • Macanese: bolo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

bolo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bolar

Anagrams

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

bolo (Cyrillic spelling боло)

  1. neuter singular active past participle of bosti

Slovak

Pronunciation

Participle

bolo

  1. neuter singular l-participle of byť

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbolo/
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Syllabification: bo‧lo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin bolus.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. bowling pin
  2. bolus
  3. (in the plural) bowling
Derived terms

Adjective

bolo (feminine bola, masculine plural bolos, feminine plural bolas)

  1. (colloquial, Central America) drunk
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borracho
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Clipping of bolívar.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (Venezuela, slang) a bolívar (Venezuelan unit of currency)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (colloquial) gig

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Tagalog bolo.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (Philippines) bolo (long, single-edged machete)

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbolo/,
  • Hyphenation: bo‧lo

Noun

bolo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. bolo (long, single-edged machete)

Related terms

Ternate

Conjunction

bolo

  1. or

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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