What does «tunco» mean in Spanish?

  • Maimed of some limb, or that it has lost its use; crippled.

    ♦ Used in: Guatemala - Honduras - Mexico

    Examples of use in Spanish: "era un hombre tunco".

  • Short, incomplete, truncated.

    Examples of use in Spanish: "me regalaron un perro tunco de la cola".

  • Pork, pig, hog.

    ♦ Used in: Honduras - Mexico

    Examples of use in Spanish: "un buen tunco para hacer tocino".

    "Es una granja exclusivamente de tuncos".

    "Tamales de tunco arrete" (tamales de carne de cerdo).

  • Small machete.

    ♦ Used in: Salvador

    Examples of use in Spanish: "Necesito mi tunco para partir este coco".

  • (anda a ver si ya puso la tunca) An ingenious way of throwing someone out because they are annoying or say incoherent things.

    Examples of use in Spanish: "Josecito, anda a ver si ya puso la tunca, y deja ya de hablar pavadas".

  • (donde la tunca tuerce el rabo) expr. To reach a complicated point, with no return or where there is no way out.
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