chanchito
noun
chan·chi·to chän-ˈchē-(ˌ)tō 
plural chanchitos
: a freshwater cichlid fish (Australohero facetus synonym Cichlasoma facetum) of South America that is typically yellow to pale brown with dark vertical stripes, may reach a length of seven inches (18 centimeters), and is sometimes kept in aquariums : chameleon cichlid
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from American Spanish, diminutive of chancho "hog, swine," affective variant of sancho in the same sense, from the Spanish given name Sancho
Note: Allegedly so named from the fish's habit of uprooting plants.
First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined above
- notes receivable
- notes verbales
- notest
- notetaker
- noteum
- noteworthier
- noteworthiest
- noteworthily
- noteworthiness
- noteworthinesses
- noteworthy
- notgeld
- noth-
- notharctid
- notharctine
- Notharctus
- nother
- nothing
- nothing but skin and bones
- nothing but trouble
- nothing comes of
- nothing could be farther from the truth
- nothing could be further from someone's mind
- nothing could be further from the truth
- nothing daunted