chanchullo
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈt͡ʃuʝo/ [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʝo] (Spain, most of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈt͡ʃuʎo/ [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈt͡ʃuʃo/ [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈt͡ʃuʒo/ [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈt͡ʃujo/ [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃu.jo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -uʝo (Spain, most of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -uʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -uʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -uʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ujo (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Syllabification: chan‧chu‧llo
Noun
[edit]chanchullo m (plural chanchullos)
- (colloquial) sleaze, scum
- (colloquial) sham, fishy business, funny stuff
- Synonym: componenda
- backgammon
- Synonyms: backgammon, chaquete, tablas reales
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chanchullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Categories:
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʝo
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʝo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʎo
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʎo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʃo
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʃo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʒo
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʒo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/ujo
- Rhymes:Spanish/ujo/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms
- es:Games