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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kotiˈʝeo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kotiˈʎeo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kotiˈʃeo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kotiˈʒeo/
- Rhymes: -eo
- Syllabification: co‧ti‧lle‧o
Etymology 1
Deverbal from cotillear.
Noun
cotilleo m (plural cotilleos)
- gossip
- Synonyms: chisme, pelambre, copucha, salseo
2020 October 7, “Las jugosas memorias de Perez Hilton, el bloguero más escandaloso, entre el cotilleo y el ‘mea culpa’”, in El País:Sus cotilleos, comentarios sarcásticos y mensajitos con Photoshop sobre las fotos de las estrellas llegaron a convertir a PerezHilton.com durante años en el portal de cotilleo más famoso del mundo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cotilleo
- first-person singular present indicative of cotillear
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