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puta

Pronunciation: /ˈputa/

“puta” is a Galician word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. whore
  2. slut
  3. bitch

adjective

  1. evil; inmoral
  2. an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, freaking or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way, if the person is jealous

In Galician

  1. Muller que mantén relacións sexuais por diñeiro.
  2. Muller que mantén relacións sexuais facilmente.

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese puta, probably from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, variant of *puta, female form of *puttus, putus (“boy”), which is however a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

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