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huevo

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English

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwisder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm
Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om
Classical Latin ōvum
Vulgar Latin *ŏvum
Old Spanish hueuo
Spanish huevobor.
English huevo

    Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicle”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.

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    Noun

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    huevo (plural huevos) (Castilianism)

    1. An egg.
      • 2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155:
        Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.
      • 2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, →ISBN:
        Day or night, huevos has long been a personal favorite, but they inevitably put me into a food coma. To lighten the load, I've slimmed down to just one huevo, and instead amped up the ratio of black beans (simmered in a saucepan, not refried, with aromatics and spices).
      • 2015, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tijuana Book of the Dead, →ISBN, page 3:
        you, who can't believe your Ma rose at 4:45 to fry one huevo and a slice of bologna laid on corn tortilla—border benedict— here's your chance to drag home $80 a week, for her electric.
      • 2016, Dr. Brady Barr, Jennifer Keats Curtis, After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary, →ISBN:
        It is hard to believe Jefe was only as big as a candy bar when he first came out of his huevo.
    2. (usually in the plural) A testicle.
      • 1988, Charles Bowden, Blue Desert, →ISBN, page 3:
        The horse has no huevos. The horse is a mare.
      • 1995, Jack Curtis, Hide-Out Canyon, →ISBN, page 137:
        "I'd give my left huevo for any one of them," Leonardo said. "But . . . but how?"
      • 1997, Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa, →ISBN, page 11:
        They were giant wooly monsters with huge curl horns and yellow eyes that saw everything. And below hung big huevos.
      • 1997, Marc Talbert, A Sunburned Prayer, →ISBN, page i:
        But lately his brother had started walking as if he had baseballs packed in his pants instead of huevos the size of a hummingbird's.
      • 2009, Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show:
        Go stand naked in front of a male plastic surgeon. “One breast's lower than the other, we'll have to fix that...” Oh yeah, Doc? Let's see what you got. One huevo's hanging lower than the other.
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    Chavacano

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Spanish huevo.

      Pronunciation

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      • Hyphenation: hue‧vo

      Noun

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      huevo

      1. egg

      Spanish

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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwisder.
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm
      Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om
      Classical Latin ōvum
      Vulgar Latin *ŏvum
      Old Spanish hueuo
      Spanish huevo

        Inherited from Old Spanish hueuo, from Vulgar Latin *ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum, from Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, from *h₂éwis, possibly from *h₂ew-.

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        Noun

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        huevo m (plural huevos)

        1. egg
          poner un huevo ― to lay an egg
          • 1992, Dr. Seuss, translated by Aída E. Marcuse, Huevos Verdes con Jamón:
            ¿Te gustan los huevos verdes con jamón?
            Do you like green eggs with ham?
        2. spawn
          Synonym: hueva
        3. (vulgar, slang) testicle
          Synonyms: testículo, tanate, cojón
        4. (vulgar, slang, in the plural) guts, balls, courage
          Synonyms: agallas, cojones
          Coordinate term: ovarios
          tener huevos ― to have balls
        5. (biology) zygote
          Synonym: cigoto
        6. (biology) ovule
          Synonym: óvulo
        7. (Peru, colloquial, with de) a lot, loads
          Hay un huevo de gente. ― There's a lot of people.

        Verb

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        huevo

        1. first-person singular present indicative of huevar

        Derived terms

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        Descendants

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        • Chavacano: huevo
        • Papiamentu: webu
        • → Cahuilla: wéevu'
        • → English: huevo

        Further reading

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