pollo

Italian (Fiorentino)

noun
Definitions
  • (meats) chicken (especially chicken meat)
  • (slang) sucker, chump, dupe or patsy
  • (slang) pushover or weakling

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pullus (chick, chicken, offspring, sprout of a plant, young animal, etc, child, cub, animal young, blackish, lamb, rooster, young of an animal, young, dusky coloured, dusky) derived from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (animal young).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*polH-

Gloss

animal young

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