Dictionary

huevo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈweɪ.voʊ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om Classical Latin ōvum Vulgar Latin *ŏvum Old Spanish hueuo Spanish huevobor. English huevo Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicle”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.

Meanings

1. (error-unknown-tag) An egg.
   • It is hard to believe Jefe was only as big as a candy bar when he first came out of his huevo. 2016, Dr. Brady Barr, Jennifer Keats Curtis, After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary, →ISBN:
   • Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens. 2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155:
   • 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. 2015, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tijuana Book of the Dead, →ISBN, page 3:
   • 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). 2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, →ISBN:
2. (error-unknown-tag, plural-normally) A testicle.
   • 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. 2009, Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show:
   • 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. 1997, Marc Talbert, A Sunburned Prayer, →ISBN, page i:
   • "I'd give my left huevo for any one of them," Leonardo said. "But . . . but how?" 1995, Jack Curtis, Hide-Out Canyon, →ISBN, page 137:
   • They were giant wooly monsters with huge curl horns and yellow eyes that saw everything. And below hung big huevos. 1997, Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa, →ISBN, page 11:
   • The horse has no huevos. The horse is a mare. 1988, Charles Bowden, Blue Desert, →ISBN, page 3:

Forms

Relateds

huevos · Huevos