huevo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicl*”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.

Noun[edit]

huevo (plural huevos)

1. (Castilianism) Egg.

   • 2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155:

     Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.

   • 2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, →ISBN:

     Day or night, huevos has long been a personal favorite, but they inevitably put me into a food coma. To lighten the load, I've slimmed down to just one huevo, and instead amped up the ratio of black beans (simmered in a saucepan, not refried, with aromatics and spices).

   • 2015, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tijuana Book of the Dead, →ISBN, page 3:

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     you, who can't believe your Ma rose at 4:45 to fry one huevo and a slice of bologna laid on corn tortilla—border benedict— here's your chance to drag home $80 a week, for her electric.

   • 2016, Dr. Brady Barr, Jennifer Keats Curtis, After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary, →ISBN:

     It is hard to believe Jefe was only as big as a candy bar when he first came out of his huevo.

2. (Castilianism, usually in the plural) testicl*.

   • 1988, Charles Bowden, Blue Desert, →ISBN, page 3:

     The horse has no huevos. The horse is a mare.

   • 1995, Jack Curtis, Hide-Out Canyon, →ISBN, page 137:

     "I'd give my left huevo for any one of them," Leonardo said. "But . . . but how?"

   • 1997, Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa, →ISBN, page 11:

     They were giant wooly monsters with huge curl horns and yellow eyes that saw everything. And below hung big huevos.

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   • 1997, Marc Talbert, A Sunburned Prayer, →ISBN, page i:

     But lately his brother had started walking as if he had baseballs packed in his pants instead of huevos the size of a hummingbird's.

   • 2009, Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show:

     Go stand naked in front of a male plastic surgeon. “One breast's lower than the other, we'll have to fix that...” Oh yeah, Doc? Let's see what you got. One huevo's hanging lower than the other.

Related terms[edit]

• huevos
• Huevos

Chavacano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish huevo.

Noun[edit]

huevo

1. egg

Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

huevo

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Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish hueuo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈw̝ebo/ [ˈw̝e.β̞o]

  • Audio (Spain):

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• IPA^(key): (dialectal) /ˈɡwebo/ [ˈɡwe.β̞o], /ˈbwebo/ [ˈbwe.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ebo
• Syllabification: hue‧vo

Noun[edit]

huevom (plural huevos)

1. egg

   poner un huevo ― to lay an egg

   • 1992, Dr. Seuss, translated by Aída E. Marcuse, Huevos Verdes con Jamón:

     ¿Te gustan los huevos verdes con jamón?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. spawn

   Synonym: hueva

3. (vulgar, slang) testicl*

   Synonyms: testículo, tanate, cojón

4. (vulgar, slang, in the plural) guts, balls, courage

   Synonyms: agallas, cojones

   tener huevos ― to have balls

5. (biology) zygote

   Synonym: cigoto

6. (biology) ovule

   Synonym: óvulo

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Chavacano: huevo
• Papiamentu: webu
• → Cahuilla: wéevu'
• → English: huevo

Further reading[edit]

• “huevo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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