chanchito
English
Noun
chanchito (plural chanchitos)
- Australoheros facetus, the chameleon cichlid.
Spanish
Etymology
chancho + -ito
Noun
chanchito m (plural chanchitos)
- (Latin America) piglet
- (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay) piggy bank
- Synonyms: (Spain) hucha, (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) alcancía, (Mexico, Venezuela) cochinito, (Guatemala) cochito, (Colombia) marranito, (Mexico) puerquito, (El Salvador) tunquito
Derived terms
- chanchito de tierra
Further reading
- “chanchito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014