bolo
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo (plural bolos)
- A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
- (attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 141:
- He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)
Etymology 2
[edit]Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.
Noun
[edit]bolo (plural bolos)
- A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
Verb
[edit]bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)
- To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.
Etymology 3
[edit]From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).
Noun
[edit]bolo (plural bolos)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)
- (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
Etymology 4
[edit]An acronym of Be on the lookout.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo (plural bolos)
- (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “bolo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Bambara
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan bólo.
Noun
[edit]bolo
References
[edit]- Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010
Galician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
- sand lance (Ammodytes)
- Synonym: areeiro
Etymology 2
[edit]From bola (“piece of bread”), from Latin bulla (“bubble”).
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
- bun, roll
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:
- Para esto ual o ouo torrado ataa que se faça duro et depois tollelle a casca et faz tal como bollo
- For this you must use egg, roasted till its hard; remove then the shell and make a roll with it
- piece of bread
- 1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 449:
- daredes hun dia de seara de cada anno en a nosa granja de Vales, e hun bolo de triigo
- and you'll give a day of work each year at our farm of Vales, and a piece of wheat bread
- daredes hun dia de seara de cada anno en a nosa granja de Vales, e hun bolo de triigo
- 1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 449:
- ball of butter
- Synonym: pela
- lump
- Synonym: grumo
- clod
- Synonym: terrón
- pebble
- Synonym: croio
Derived terms
[edit]- bolo do pote (“dumpling”)
- furabolos (“forefinger”, literally “bun-piercer”)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bolo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bolo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bolo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bolo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English bowl, French bol, German Bowle, Spanish bol.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo (plural boli)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod, lump”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural boli)
Anagrams
[edit]Javanese
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo
- Nonstandard spelling of bala.
Koasati
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo
Lingala
[edit]Chemical element | |
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B | Next: kaboni (C) |
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo class 9 (plural bolo class 10, colloquial plural babolo class 2)
Macanese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese bolo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo
Derived terms
[edit]- bôlo bate-pau (“mooncake”)
- bôlo mârmre (“marble cake”)
- bôlo minino
- bôlo nata
- bôlo supiám
References
[edit]Portuguese
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Etymology 1
[edit]From bola. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -olu
- Hyphenation: bo‧lo
Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
- (cooking) cake
- bunch, heap, mass (load of some material or of beings)
- a bunch of money
- prize, reward
- Synonyms: prêmio, recompensa
- (Brazil) something said or done to mislead or deceive
- (Brazil) disarray, disorder chaos
- (Brazil, slang) the act of standing someone up (missing an appointment)
- Synonym: furo
Derived terms
[edit]- a cereja do bolo
- abolar
- bolacha
- bolada
- bolão
- bolar
- boleima
- bolinho
- bolo alimentar
- bolo alimentício
- bolo baeta
- bolo chibo
- bolo de anjo
- bolo de arroz
- bolo de bacia
- bolo de caneca
- bolo de cenoura
- bolo de chocolate
- bolo de claras
- bolo de gengibre
- bolo de milho
- bolo de noiva
- bolo de pote
- bolo de rolo
- bolo de tabuleiro
- bolo do caco
- bolo fecal
- bolo floresta negra
- bolo histérico
- bolo inglês
- bolo lêvedo
- bolo lunar
- bolo-armênio
- bolo-formigueiro
- bolo-mármore
- bololô
- dar bolo em
- dar o bolo
- dar um bolo
- embolar
- fazer num bolo
- ficar num bolo
- fura-bolos
- levar bolo
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]bolo
Anagrams
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bolo” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “bolo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “bolo” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “bolo” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “bolo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “bolo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “bolo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]bolo (Cyrillic spelling боло)
Slovak
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[edit]Participle
[edit]bolo
Spanish
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
Derived terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bolo (feminine bola, masculine plural bolos, feminine plural bolas)
- (colloquial, Central America) drunk
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borracho
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
Etymology 3
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]bolo m (plural bolos)
- (Philippines) bolo (long, single-edged machete)
Further reading
[edit]- “bolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbolo/ [ˈboː.lo]
- Rhymes: -olo
- Syllabification: bo‧lo
Noun
[edit]bolo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)
- bolo (long, single-edged machete)
Related terms
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[edit]Ternate
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]bolo
References
[edit]- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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- es:Bowling
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