tuco

Borrowed from Spanish tuco.

tuco (uncountable)

2. A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
   • 2015, John M. Keller, Abracadabrantesque, New York, N.Y.,  […]: Dr. Cicero Books, →ISBN, page 440:

     We ate ñoqui in a tuco sauce that they'd ordered already prepared, and Soriano and I drank wine, a De Lucca cabernet sauvignon, while Felip didn't drink anything at all […]

   • 2017, Carolyn Caldicott, World Street Food: Easy Recipes for Young Travellers, London: Pimpernel Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 61:

     Customize your tuco sauce: add sliced mushrooms, diced aubergine or sliced spinach, or think of some ideas of your own.

• tuco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuko/ [ˈt̪u.ko]
• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: tu‧co

Uncertain.

tuco (feminine tuca, masculine plural tucos, feminine plural tucas)

1. (Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Venezuela) one-armed

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) tuco (sauce)
2. (Asturias) pork bone, hard thing
3. (Asturias, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico) stump
4. (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama) piece of wood

Borrowed from Quechua tucu.

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. (Argentina) a type of beetle

Borrowed from Quechua tuku.

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. (Peru) a kind of owl

• “tuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28