# huevo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicle”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* huevos
* Huevos

## Chavacano
### Etymology

From Spanish huevo.

### Noun

huevo
* egg

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish hueuo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈw̝ebo/ [ˈw̝e.β̞o]
** Audio (Spain):(file)
* IPA: (dialectal) /ˈɡwebo/ [ˈɡwe.β̞o], /ˈbwebo/ [ˈbwe.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -ebo
* Syllabification: hue‧vo

### Noun

huevo m (plural huevos)
* egg
    poner un huevo ― to lay an egg
** 1992, Dr. Seuss, translated by Aída E. Marcuse, Huevos Verdes con Jamón:¿Te gustan los huevos verdes con jamón?Do you like green eggs with ham?
* spawn
    Synonym: hueva
* (vulgar, slang) testicle
    Synonyms: testículo, tanate, cojón
* (vulgar, slang, in the plural) guts, balls, courage
    Synonyms: agallas, cojones
    tener huevos ― to have balls
* (biology) zygote
    Synonym: cigoto
* (biology) ovule
    Synonym: óvulo

#### Derived terms

* a huevo
* a puro huevo
* al freír de los huevos lo verá
* al freír los huevos
* blanco de huevo
* calientahuevos
* chupar un huevo
* chuparse un huevo
* coger por los huevos
* cómeme los huevos
* costar un huevo
* cuando seas padre comerás huevos
* de a huevo
* diente de huevo
* estar hasta los huevos
* gallina de los huevos de oro
* huevazo
* huevito
* huevo batido (“beaten egg, egg wash”)
* huevo cocido
* huevo de Colón
* huevo de faltriquera
* huevo de gallo
* huevo de Juanelo
* huevo de Pascua
* huevo de rey
* huevo de zurcir
* huevo duro
* huevo en cáscara
* huevo escalfado
* huevo estrellado
* huevo frito
* huevo pasado por agua
* huevón
* huevos al plato
* huevos dobles quemados
* huevos motuleños
* huevos picados
* huevos revueltos
* huevos rotos
* importar un huevo
* manda huevos
* pisando huevos
* ponche de huevo
* sacar los huevos
* sal quiere el huevo
* sórbete ese huevo tener huevos
* tocar los huevos a alguien
* un huevo
* y un huevo
* yema de huevo

#### Related terms

* aovado
* aovar
* ovoidal
* ovoide
* ovoideo

#### Descendants

* Chavacano: huevo
* Papiamentu: webu
* → Cahuilla: wéevu'
* → English: huevo

### Further reading

* “huevo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “huevo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea