potrós
Catalan
Etymology
From potra (“good luck, inguinal hernia”) + -ós.
Pronunciation
Adjective
potrós (feminine potrosa, masculine plural potrosos, feminine plural potroses)
- lucky
- Synonym: sortós
- (said of a person, furniture, or clothes) dirty
- Synonym: brut
- a person that has an inguinal hernia
- (Tarragona) ugly, unpleasant
- (Valencia) annoying
- Synonyms: molest, amoïnador
Further reading
- “potrós”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “potrós”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “potrós” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “potrós” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.