piojo
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, from pēdis, from Proto-Indo-European *pezd-. Compare Portuguese piolho.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
piojo m (plural piojos)
- a louse, a cootie (a kind of parasitic insect, lice)
- Todavía está en la edad en que cree que las chicas tienen piojos.
- He's still at the age where he thinks girls have cooties.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: pioxo
See also[edit]
- liendre f
Further reading[edit]
- “piojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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