puerco
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Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish puerco.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]puerco
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish puerco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).
The "police officer" slang sense is apparently a semantic loan from English pig.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]puerco m (plural puercos, feminine puerca, feminine plural puercas)
- pig
- pork (the meat of a pig)
- (slang, derogatory, Mexico) police officer; "pig"
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “puerco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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