pellejo
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Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish pellejo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: pe‧lle‧jo
Noun
[edit]pellejo
- skin (of humans, animals, and fruits)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pelleja.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /peˈʝexo/ [peˈʝe.xo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /peˈʎexo/ [peˈʎe.xo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /peˈʃexo/ [peˈʃe.xo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /peˈʒexo/ [peˈʒe.xo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /peˈexo/ [peˈe.xo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -exo
- Syllabification: pe‧lle‧jo
Noun
[edit]pellejo m (plural pellejos)
- skin, hide
- 2023 August 30, “El PSOE, sobre la oferta de Feijóo: “Nos ofrece un pacto con Vox para derogar el sanchismo en dos años””, in El País[1]:
- El PSOE, que ha reunido a su ejecutiva tras el encuentro, ha rechazado el ofrecimiento afirmando que lo que ofrece Feijóo a los socialistas es “un pacto con Vox para derogar el sanchismo en dos años” y aduciendo que el líder del PP no piensa en la estabilidad de España, sino en “salvar su pellejo”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dead) skin
- wineskin
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pellejo”, 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:
- Chavacano terms inherited from Spanish
- Chavacano terms derived from Spanish
- Chavacano lemmas
- Chavacano nouns
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pel- (skin)
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/exo
- Rhymes:Spanish/exo/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
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