chuco

• shuco

From Nahuatl xococ (“sour”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuko/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ko]
• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: chu‧co

chuco (feminine chuca, masculine plural chucos, feminine plural chucas)

1. (El Salvador, Guatemala) filthy; scummy; dirty
2. (El Salvador, Guatemala, of food) rotted: spoiled; ruined

• “chuco”, 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
• “chuco”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010