aguacatero
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɡwakaˈteɾo/ [a.ɣ̞wa.kaˈt̪e.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: a‧gua‧ca‧te‧ro
Adjective
aguacatero (feminine aguacatera, masculine plural aguacateros, feminine plural aguacateras)
- (relational) avocado
- (El Salvador) mutt
- Ese perro es aguacatero.
- That dog is a mutt
- Mi perra aguacatera parió ayer.
- My mutt dog gave birth yesterday.
- 2009, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Ciudad de alado:
- Viaje de regreso. He ido a la oficina y de regreso había un perro aguacatero negro-parche-blanco-en-ojo-izquierdo acompañándolo a todos lados.
- Return trip. I went to the office and on the way back there was a black-with-a-white-patch-on-its-left-eye mutt following him all over.
- (El Salvador, often derogatory) proper or pertaining to El Salvador, in opposition to foreign countries, and usually of lower quality, cheaper or unrefined.
Further reading
- “aguacatero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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