chico
Meaning
Noun
- A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
- The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.
- Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.
Origin
- Borrowed from Spanish chico.
- Borrowed from Spanish chicozapote (through a regional abbreviation), from Nahuatl xicotzapotl. Cognate of chicle.
- Perhaps from Spanish choclo, influded by chico.
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