chingolingo

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown. Likely a reduplication of chingo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃinɡoˈlinɡo/ [t͡ʃĩŋ.ɡoˈlĩŋ.ɡo]
  • Rhymes: -inɡo
  • Syllabification: chin‧go‧lin‧go

Noun

chingolingo m (plural chingolingos)

  1. (gambling, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) a carnival game of chance, commonly played by guesing the result of thrown dice, or by dropping a marble on a board with red and black holes, or with figures drawn on the holes [prior to 1892][1]
    Synonym: (loosely defined) lotería
    • 1901, Mariano Zeceña, Plumadas, Guatemala: Siguere & Cia., page 136:
      ¡Que vayan los diputados al chingolingo y á la ruleta á que me les desplumen y que vean así prácticamente los efectos de sus leyes!
      Let the deputies come to the dice game of chance and roulette, for them to be robbed and so they will notice practically the effects of their laws!

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Antonio Batres Jáuregui (1892) “Chingolingo”, in Vicios del lenguaje y provincialismos de Guatemala: Estudio filológico (in Spanish), Guatemala: Encuadernacion y tipografía nacional, page 231

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