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chulo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cocky adj Overly self-confident, boastful, or arrogant.
  • cute adj Attractive in a charming, often small or youthful way.
  • hustler noun A person who works energetically and resourcefully, especially to make money.
  • nifty adjective Impressively clever, useful, or stylish.
  • pimp noun A person who arranges clients for prostitutes and takes a share of their earnings.

Senses

chulo is used for these senses in English:

  • cocky Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
  • cute Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
  • hustler A pimp.
  • nifty (colloquial, somewhat, _, dated) Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.
  • pimp Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

cute — full definition

  1. adj Attractive in a charming, often small or youthful way.
  2. adj Trying too hard to be clever or charming, in a way that can seem forced.

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