chulo
Galician
Adjective
chulo m or f (plural chulos)
- cute, pretty, lovely
- (colloquial) cocky
- Synonyms: arrogante, petulante
Noun
chulo m (plural chulos)
- pimp
- Synonym: bagaxeiro
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃu.lu/
- Rhymes: -ulu
- Hyphenation: chu‧lo
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish chulo.[1][2]
Adjective
chulo (feminine chula, masculine plural chulos, feminine plural chulas)
- (of language or words) coarse; vulgar; obscene
- Synonyms: obsceno, vulgar, de baixo calão
- (of people or their actions and attitude) vulgar; obscene; distasteful
- Synonyms: obsceno, vulgar
Noun
chulo m (plural chulos)
- a term in foul language, profanity
- (Portugal) pimp (prostitution solicitor)
- Synonyms: cafetão, proxeneta
Verb
chulo
- first-person singular present indicative of chular
References
- “chulo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “chulo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ciullo, a now-obsolete shortening of Italian fanciullo, a diminutive based ultimately on Latin infans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃulo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.lo]
- Rhymes: -ulo
- Syllabification: chu‧lo
Adjective
chulo (feminine chula, masculine plural chulos, feminine plural chulas, superlative chulísimo)
- (of actions) cute, pretty, lovely, cool, nifty
- Synonyms: mono, cuqui, bonito, genial; see also Thesaurus:guay
- (Spain, colloquial, of people) cocky (overly confident, arrogant and boastful)
- Synonyms: chulito, engreído, arrogante, petulante, altanero
- 2017 March 18, Elvira Lindo, “Blablacar, el sainete”, in El País:
- Después de que un tipo se pusiera chulo en el tren porque le pedí que hablara más bajo por el móvil, decidí que mi campaña por el buen uso del celular había concluido.
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- (Chile, colloquial) ordinary, common, vulgar, rascal
- Synonyms: ordinario, rasca, chuliento, mugriento, flaite
Usage notes
- Chulo is to define actions and means cute, but in people it means cocky. To describe an action as cocky one uses chulesco. For example, "una jugada chula" means "a cute play" while "una jugada chulesca" means "a cocky play".
Derived terms
- chulito (diminutive)
- chulamente
- chulesco m
- chulería f
- chulada f
- chulear
- chuliento
- más chulo que un ocho
- papi chulo
Descendants
- → Catalan: xulo
- → Portuguese: chulo
Noun
chulo m (plural chulos)
- (Spain) pimp
- Synonyms: proxeneta, rufián, cabrón, cafiche, alcahuete
- (Venezuela, colloquial) freeloader, mooch
- Synonyms: gorrón, parásito, lambucio, golillero, oportunista
- (bullfighting) a bullfighter's assistant
Further reading
- “chulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “chulo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 405