What does «pitongo» mean in Spanish?
- Drunk, beginning of drunkenness.
♦ Used in: Chile - Snooty person.
Examples of use in Spanish: "mi compañero es un pitongo".
- Rubber chamber tube inside the old footballs or soccer balls, present in these before the modern valve-inflated system.
♦ Used in: Colombia - Common name for a certain wild flower, purple, with the shape of a large bellflower, usual in the summer season.
♦ Used in: Colombia - Spout of a kettle where steam comes out.
- By extension, any outstanding part of something.
♦ Used in: Panama
Examples of use in Spanish: "en este modelo han cambiado el pitongo de los cables conectores USB".
- Banana tip.
- (niño/niña pitongo/pitonga) Bitongo child, presumptuous young man, prissy.
- (niño/niña pitongo/pitonga) Young people who are not avant-garde or fashionable.
- (la misma jeringa con diferente pitongo) expr. A situation or case essentially the same as others of the same species except for some minor and insubstantial differences.
♦ Used in: Panama