capullo
Spanish
Etymology
Perhaps from capillo (“hood”), with the ending influenced by Latin cucūllus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈpuʝo/ [kaˈpu.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kaˈpuʎo/ [kaˈpu.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kaˈpuʃo/ [kaˈpu.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kaˈpuʒo/ [kaˈpu.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -uʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -uʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -uʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ca‧pu‧llo
Noun
capullo m (plural capullos)
- cocoon
- bud, blossom (especially used for rosebuds)
- pod
- (Spain, vulgar) dick, penis (male genitals)
- (Spain, vulgar) foreskin
- Synonym: prepucio
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter V, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 78:
- Me baja más los pantalones y me come el capullo hasta que estoy a punto de correrme otra vez.
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Noun
capullo m (plural capullos, feminine capulla, feminine plural capullas)
- (Spain, vulgar, derogatory) asshole, dick (contemptible person)
- Synonyms: cabrón, (Chile) conchetumadre, gilipollas
Further reading
- “capullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024