carajito
Spanish
Etymology
From carajo + -ito, carajo is an often vulgar word for penis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾaˈxito/ [ka.ɾaˈxi.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: ca‧ra‧ji‧to
Noun
carajito m (plural carajitos, feminine carajita, feminine plural carajitas)
- (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) child
- 2017 July 3, Claudio Nazoa, “Seamos el iceberg”, in El Nacional[1], archived from the original on 3 July 2017:
- —Mira –le expliqué con paciencia–, lo que pasa es que cuando Rómulo yo era un carajito que todavía no había dejado sus muñecas (ojo, era titiritero).
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Further reading
- “carajito”, 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