pocotón
Spanish
FWOTD – 17 July 2017
Etymology
Possibly a blend of poco (“little, few”) + montón (“a ton”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pokoˈton/ [po.koˈt̪õn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: po‧co‧tón
Noun
pocotón m (plural pocotones)
- (Venezuela, Colombia, slang) a large amount of something
- 2017 January 2, “Los mamones del tiempo”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Aquel pocotón de suegras bravas entre sí compitiendo por quién hacía la mejor hallaca.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “pocotón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024