different between taco vs maco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: tä?k?, IPA^(key): /?t?ko?/, [?t??ko?]
• (UK) enPR: t??k?, IPA^(key): /?tæk??/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: tä?k?, IPA^(key): /?t??k??/
• Rhymes: -æk??, -??k??

Noun

taco (plural tacos)

1. (cooking) A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa.
2. (US, slang) The vulva.

   Synonym: pink taco

   • 2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd., page 130:

     […] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...

   • 2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159:

     […] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.

   • 2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance (Barachou Press):

     " […] was it really necessary to make your maid piss herself? Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen. Jesus, Lana."

3. (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

Derived terms

• naco
• pink taco
• street taco
• taco fest

Translations

Verb

taco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)

1. (slang) To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.

Further reading

• taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, coat, octa, octa-

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ta.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ta.ku/

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tacar

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ko/, [?t??ko?]
• Syllabification: ta?co

Noun

taco

1. taco

Declension

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

taco

1. nominative singular of taca (“skin”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.t?s?/

Noun

taco f

1. vocative singular of taca

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ta.ku/
• Rhymes: -aku

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (sports) cue; bat; stick (any long implement used to hit the ball or puck in certain sports)
2. Bete-ombro

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of tacar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tako/, [?t?a.ko]

Etymology 1

Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”), from Middle Low German Zacke (“sharp point”).

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (Mexico, cooking) taco
2. peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
3. dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
4. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
5. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) heel (of a shoe)
6. (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
7. (Chile) traffic jam
8. (Spain) curse word, swear word

   Synonyms: juramento, palabrota, voto

9. (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot

   Synonym: montón

10. (Spain, colloquial, in the plural) years of age

    Synonyms: año, primavera

Derived terms

See also

• billar

Descendants

• ? English: taco

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

taco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tacar.

Further reading

• taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “taco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• acto, cato, cota, toca

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian tacco.

Noun

taco m (plural tachi)

1. heel

English

Noun

maco (uncountable)

1. An Egyptian cotton once used to make underwear and stockings.

Anagrams

• OAMC, camo, coma

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish majo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ma.ku/

Adjective

maco (feminine maca, masculine plural macos, feminine plural maques)

1. beautiful, pretty

   Synonym: bonic

2. nice, lovely

   Synonym: agradable

Derived terms

• quemaco

Further reading

• “maco” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “maco” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat?so/
• Hyphenation: ma?co
• Rhymes: -at?so

Noun

maco (accusative singular macon, plural macoj, accusative plural macojn)

1. matzo, matzah

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mako/, [?ma.ko]

Noun

maco m (plural macos)

1. prison