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Portuguese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -oʃu, (Northern Portugal) -ot͡ʃu
- Hyphenation: to‧cho
Noun
tocho m (plural tochos)
- club (heavy stick used as a weapon)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tocho
- first-person singular present indicative of tochar
Spanish
Etymology
Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tusculus, diminutive of Latin tuscus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtot͡ʃo/
- Rhymes: -otʃo
- Syllabification: to‧cho
Adjective
tocho (feminine tocha, masculine plural tochos, feminine plural tochas)
- (colloquial, El Salvador) mean (person)
- Synonyms: miserable, mala gente, (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile) mala onda
- ¡No seás tocho! ― Don't be so mean!
- Esa es una gran tocha. ― She's a very mean girl.
- (colloquial) clumsy
- Synonym: torpe
- (colloquial) big, giant
- Synonym: grandulón
Further reading
- “tocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983) “tocho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 527