coso
Galician
Italian
Noun
coso m (plural cosi)
- (colloquial) thingie, thingo, thingamabob (term used to refer to something or someone whose name one cannot recall)
- (colloquial) thing
- contraption
- (colloquial, slang) penis
Synonyms
- (thing): affare, cosa
- (contraption): aggeggio, congegno, diavoleria
Portuguese
Spanish
Etymology 1
Noun
coso m (plural cosos)
Usage notes
Used in Argentina and El Salvador when the gender (and usually the name) of the object is known, without naming the object explicitly.
Etymology 2
From Latin cursus. Compare the borrowed doublet curso, cf. also the form corso. Compare Portuguese cosso, corso, Catalan cós, cors.
Related terms
Etymology 3
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