huevo

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

huevo (plural huevos)

1. (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.

2. (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.

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From Spanish huevo.

huevo

1. egg

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈw̝ebo/ [ˈw̝e.β̞o]

  • Audio (Spain):

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• IPA^(key): (dialectal) /ˈɡwebo/ [ˈɡwe.β̞o], /ˈbwebo/ [ˈbwe.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ebo
• Syllabification: hue‧vo

huevo m (plural huevos)

1. 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?

2. spawn

   Synonym: hueva

3. (vulgar, slang) testicle

   Synonyms: testículo, tanate, cojón

4. (vulgar, slang, in the plural) guts, balls, courage

   Synonyms: agallas, cojones

   tener huevos ― to have balls

5. (biology) zygote

   Synonym: cigoto

6. (biology) ovule

   Synonym: óvulo

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

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