chueco
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chueca (“stump of a tree”), itself from Basque txoko (“anklebone”), perhaps recalling curved, bent branches sprouting from it.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chueco (feminine chueca, masculine plural chuecos, feminine plural chuecas)
- (Latin America) crooked, bent, curved (not straight, having one or more bends or angles)
- (Latin America) crooked, oblique, (not at right angles, horizontal or vertical)
- (Mexico, slang) hot, stolen
- (Latin America) devious
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chueco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014