zorrillo
English
Noun
zorrillo (plural zorrillos)
- Alternative form of zorillo (“striped skunk”)
Spanish
Etymology
From zorro + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain) /θoˈriʝo/ [θoˈri.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /θoˈriʎo/ [θoˈri.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /soˈriʝo/ [soˈri.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains) /soˈriʎo/ [soˈri.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /soˈriʃo/ [soˈri.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /soˈriʒo/ [soˈri.ʒo]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo
- Syllabification: zo‧rri‧llo
Noun
zorrillo m (plural zorrillos, feminine zorrilla, feminine plural zorrillas)
- skunk
- Synonyms: chingue, mofeta, zorrin, mapurite
- (derogatory, colloquial) a bad-smelling person
- (Chile, colloquial) certain truck used in riot control to deliver tear gas
Related terms
- zorrilla (“polecat”)
Further reading
- “zorrillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014