curcucho

From Quechua kurku. Doublet of curcuncho and corcuncho.

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈkut͡ʃo/ [kuɾˈku.t͡ʃo]

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• Rhymes: -utʃo
• Syllabification: cur‧cu‧cho

curcucho (feminine curcucha, masculine plural curcuchos, feminine plural curcuchas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Northern Costa Rica) hunchbacked; humped

   Synonym: jorobado

• “curcucho”, 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
• “curcucho”, 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