pitillo
Spanish
Etymology
From pito + -illo (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piˈtiʝo/ [piˈt̪i.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /piˈtiʎo/ [piˈt̪i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /piˈtiʃo/ [piˈt̪i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /piˈtiʒo/ [piˈt̪i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: pi‧ti‧llo
Noun
pitillo m (plural pitillos)
- (Colombia, Venezuela) drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
- (colloquial, Spain) ciggy, fag, cig (cigarette)
- (Spain) slim-fit, skinny (pants)
- (Mexico, vulgar, rare) dick, penis
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pitillo”, 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
- “pitillo”, 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
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