capacho

From Spanish capacho, from capazo, from Latin capax.

capacho m (plural capachos)

1. doormat (coarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house)
2. (figuratively) doormat (someone that is over-submissive to others’ wishes)

Variant of capazo, from Latin capācem (“wide, roomy, capacious”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpat͡ʃo/ [kaˈpa.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Syllabification: ca‧pa‧cho

capacho m (plural capachos)

1. wicker basket
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena [Myths and Superstitions Collected from Chilean Oral Tradition]‎^[1] (pdf), page 184:

     191. El diez de agosto, día de San Lorenzo, no debe trabajar ningúü minero, porque el que lo hace está expuesto a graves accidentes: si es barretero, se quema con la pólvora del tiro; si apir (cargador) rueda con el capacho; etc. (Copiapó).

     191. On the tenth of August, Saint Lawrence's day, no miner should work, because he who does so exposes himself to serious accidents: a driller will burn himself with gunshot powder; a loader will roll with the wicker basket; etc. (Copiapó)

2. wicker baby carriage

capacho (feminine capacha, masculine plural capachos, feminine plural capachas)

1. (bullfighting) having horns pointing flat out to the sides

• “capacho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024