chota

• chhota, chuta

From Hindi छोटा (choṭā, “small”).

chota (not comparable)

1. (India, obsolete) Small; younger.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 393:

     Jemdanee announced to me that she was in a family way, expressing her earnest desire that it might prove ‘a chuta William Sahib’.

   • 1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work:

     I tell this to the Chota Sahib.

• Choat, coath, tacho

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔta/ [ˈt͡ʃɔ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: cho‧ta

chota f (plural chotas)

1. layer or lump of dug

   Synonym: bosta

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “chota”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “chota” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃota/ [ˈt͡ʃo.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: cho‧ta

chota f (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, Uruguay) semen, cum
   • Te dije que quería que trajeras mucha chota, no muchachita. - I told you I wanted you to bring a lot of cum, not a girl in her puss! ("John Salchichón Rambo", parody by the Uruguayan Internet comedian El Bananero, 2008)

   Synonyms: leche, chele, (El Salvador) chilguete, (Spain) corrida

2. (colloquial, Rioplatense) idiot
3. (colloquial, Puerto Rico) an unskilled and lazy person
4. (colloquial, Cuba, Costa Rica) joker; jester
5. (dated, slang, derogatory, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico) the police

   Synonym: (El Salvador) jura

6. (slang, Puerto Rico) snitch

   Synonym: chivato

7. (vulgar, Rioplatense) penis, cock

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

chota f (plural chotas)

1. female equivalent of choto

chota

1. inflection of chotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chota”, 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

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-chota (infinitive kuchota)

1. to scoop, to ladle