pencazo
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /penˈkaθo/ [pẽŋˈka.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /penˈkaso/ [pẽŋˈka.so]
- Rhymes: -aθo
- Rhymes: -aso
- Syllabification: pen‧ca‧zo
Noun
editpencazo m (plural pencazos) (colloquial)
- (Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Northern Colombia) hit (collision or other physical accident)
- (Chile, Northern Colombia) bang, bash, punch
- (Chile, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Uruguay) shots (instance of drinking alcohol)
- (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) a heavy rain
- (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) a lot (of)
Further reading
edit- “pencazo”, 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
- “pencazo” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
Categories:
- Spanish terms suffixed with -azo
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθo
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/aso
- Rhymes:Spanish/aso/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Chilean Spanish
- Guatemalan Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Salvadorian Spanish
- Nicaraguan Spanish
- Colombian Spanish
- Uruguayan Spanish