• escuintle

Borrowed fromClassical Nahuatlitzcuintli(“dog”), meaning kid in some places.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkwinkle/[esˈkwĩŋ.kle]
• Rhymes:-inkle
• Syllabification:es‧cuin‧cle

escuincle m (pluralescuincles,feminineescuincla,feminine pluralescuinclas)

1. (Mexico, slang, derogatory)kid,little boy
2. street urchin

   Synonyms:niño de la calle,(Colombia)gamín

• Gómez de Silva, Guido (2001),Diccionario breve de mexicanismos, México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica
• Robelo, Cecilio A. (1912),Diccionario de Aztequismos, new ed. edition, México: Imp. del Museo n. de arquelogía, historia y etnología, page157

• “escuincle”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
• Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
• Spanish 3-syllable words
• Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
• Rhymes:Spanish/inkle
• Rhymes:Spanish/inkle/3 syllables
• Spanish lemmas
• Spanish nouns
• Spanish countable nouns
• Spanish masculine nouns
• Mexican Spanish
• Spanish slang
• Spanish derogatory terms
• es:Children

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