conejo
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish conejo, from Latin cuniculus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈnexo/ [koˈne.xo]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -exo
- Syllabification: co‧ne‧jo
Noun
conejo m (plural conejos, feminine coneja, feminine plural conejas)
- rabbit, cony, coney (male or unspecified sex)
- (Central America) detective
- Synonym: detective
- (Mexico, anatomy) a contracted biceps (having athletic or semi-athletic features, specially when exhibiting, intentionally or not)
- (vulgar, slang) cunt (female genitalia)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
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Descendants
- Papiamentu: koneu
- → Asturian: conexu
- → Cebuano: koneho
- → Galician: conexo
- → Quechua: kunu
- → Tagalog: kuneho
Further reading
- “conejo”, 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