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Chico

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Butte County, California, United States.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated census-designated place in Washington, United States.
  3. 3
    A city in Texas, United States.
  4. 4
    A diminutive of the male given name Francisco, from Portuguese.
Noun
  1. 1
    A Latin-American boy; a Latino. Canada, US, informal
  2. 2
    The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.
  3. 3
    Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob. in-plural

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish chico.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish chicozapote (through a regional abbreviation), from Nahuatl xicotzapotl. Cognate of chicle.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Spanish choclo, influenced by chico.

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