más feo que Picio
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “uglier than Picio”. Picio was the surname of Francisco Picio, a shoemaker from Spain who was sentenced to death but the sentence was revoked shortly before his planned execution. After that, his body started to become horribly deformed.
Adjective
[edit]más feo que Picio (feminine más fea que Picio, masculine plural más feos que Picio, feminine plural más feas que Picio)
- (idiomatic, colloquial, simile) ugly as sin, butt ugly
- 1859, Antonio de Trueba, “La madrastra”, in Cuentos de color de rosa:
- pero la verdad es que, como no hay una que no tenga a su hijo por un serafín del cielo, aunque sea más feo que Picio revientan de orgullo y quieren que el mundo entero los contemple
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Further reading
[edit]- “más feo, a que Picio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28