chorro

chorro (feminine chorri, plural chorre)

1. Anglicized form of ćorro

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoro/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ro]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: cho‧rro

Onomatopoeic

chorro m (plural chorros)

1. flow; jet
2. tap; faucet
3. (colloquial, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic) ton, tons; bunch; pile

   Synonym: montón

4. (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador) diarrhea

• → Portuguese: jorro
  • → Japanese: じょろ

• choro

Borrowed from Romani ćorro (“poor”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

chorro m (plural chorros)

1. (Chile, slang) a poor person, ghetto, a criminal
2. (Chile, colloquial) coin purse
3. (Argentina, colloquial, Lunfardo) thief

• “chorro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “chorro”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010