tocho
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== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology 1 ===
==== Pronunciation ====
Rhymes: -oʃu, (Northern Portugal) -ot͡ʃu
Hyphenation: to‧cho
==== Noun ====
tocho m (plural tochos)
club (heavy stick used as a weapon)
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
tocho
first-person singular present indicative of tochar
=== Further reading ===
“tocho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“tocho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tusculus, diminutive of Latin tuscus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈtot͡ʃo/ [ˈt̪o.t͡ʃo]
Rhymes: -otʃo
Syllabification: to‧cho
=== Adjective ===
tocho (feminine tocha, masculine plural tochos, feminine plural tochas)
(colloquial, El Salvador) mean (person)
Synonyms: miserable, mala gente, (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile) mala onda
¡No seás tocho! ― Don't be so mean!
Esa es una gran tocha. ― She's a very mean girl.
(colloquial) clumsy
Synonym: torpe
(colloquial) big, giant
Synonym: grandulón
=== Further reading ===
“tocho”, 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
Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983), “tocho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 527