cuático
Spanish
Etymology
From coa, a Chilean lower class and gangster argot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwatiko/ [ˈkwa.t̪i.ko]
- Rhymes: -atiko
- Syllabification: cuá‧ti‧co
Adjective
cuático (feminine cuática, masculine plural cuáticos, feminine plural cuáticas)
- (Chile, colloquial) exaggerated, scandalous
- Synonyms: exagerado, escandaloso
- (Chile, colloquial) curious, rare
- (Chile, colloquial) a pretentious, annoying, and contemptuous, snob
Related terms
- cuática
- cuatiquismo
Further reading
- “cuático”, 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