pollo

From Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpol.lo/

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• Rhymes: -ollo
• Hyphenation: pól‧lo

pollo m (plural polli)

1. (animals) chicken
2. (meats) chicken
3. (slang) sucker, chump, dupe or patsy
4. (slang) pushover or weakling

• pollo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Inherited from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).

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• Syllabification: po‧llo

pollo m (plural pollos)

1. chicken (meat)

   pollo frito ― fried chicken

2. young chicken (specially a male, or one of unspecified gender)
3. (colloquial) fuss, scene

   Synonyms: lío, escándalo

   montar un pollo ― to make a fuss

4. (colloquial, gay slang) twink (a young, attractive, slim man)

   Antonym: oso

pollo (feminine polla, masculine plural pollos, feminine plural pollas)

1. (Chile, slang) inexperienced

   Synonym: inexperto

• → Portuguese: polho

• “pollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014