tocho

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʃu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʃo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʃu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.t͡ʃu/

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/ [ˈt̪o.t͡ʃo]
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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “tocho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 527

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