cacafuego
noun
cac·a·fue·go
ˌkakəˈfyü(ˌ)gō,
-fwā(-
variants or less commonly cacafugo
-fyü(-
plural -s
obsolete
: a swaggering braggart or boaster
Word History
Etymology
Spanish Cacafuego, name of a ship captured in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake, from Latin cacare to void as excrement + Spanish fuego fire, from Latin focus hearth
First Known Use
1625, in the meaning defined above
- orthogeosyncline
- orthogneiss
- orthogonal
- orthogonal functions
- orthogonal projection
- orthogonal system
- orthogonal trajectory
- orthogonalisation
- orthogonalise
- orthogonalised
- orthogonalises
- orthogonalising
- orthogonalities
- orthogonality
- orthogonalization
- orthogonalizations
- orthogonalize
- orthogonalized
- orthogonalizes
- orthogonalizing
- orthogonally
- orthograde
- orthograph
- orthographer
- orthographers