cayuco
English
Noun
cayuco (plural cayucos)
- A sort of canoe or kayak.
- 2007 February 19, Caroline Brothers, “South Asians Taking Risky Route to Europe: Via Africa”, in New York Times:
- Officials like Mr. Mazzitelli, of the United Nations office in Dakar, say that while African immigrants are crossing thousands of miles of ocean in wooden or fiberglass cayucos, or fishing boats, crammed with 50 to 80 passengers, the South Asians are leaving West Africa in groups of at least 100, and in much bigger vessels, like the barely seaworthy Marine I.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʝuko/ [kaˈʝu.ko]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃuko/ [kaˈʃu.ko]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒuko/ [kaˈʒu.ko]
- Rhymes: -uko
- Syllabification: ca‧yu‧co
Further reading
- “cayuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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