cateto — meaning in English

English meaning

• boor noun A rude, ill-mannered person.
• bumpkin noun An unsophisticated, awkward person from the countryside; a yokel.
• leg noun One of the limbs used for standing and walking.

Senses

cateto is used for these senses in English:

• boor An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
• bumpkin A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
• cathetus (geometry) A line perpendicular to a surface (or line); in particular, either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse.
• country bumpkin (colloquial) An unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country.
• leg (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
• leg (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.

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