bolo

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English

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bolo machetes

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Etymology 1

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From Philippine Spanish bolo.

Noun

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bolo (plural bolos)

  1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
  2. (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.
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Verb

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bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

  1. (transitive) To attack or dispatch (a person or an animal) with a bolo knife.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
      "In the first place," began Drina, "you are to lie down flat on the floor and creep about and show us how the Moros wriggle through the grass to bolo our sentinels." […] 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 2

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Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.

Noun

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bolo (plural bolos)

  1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Verb

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bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

  1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Etymology 3

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From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).

Noun

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bolo (plural bolos)

  1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
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Verb

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bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

  1. (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

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An acronym of Be on the lookout.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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bolo (plural bolos)

  1. (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
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Anagrams

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Bambara

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Etymology

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Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan bólo.

Noun

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bolo

  1. (anatomy) arm, hand

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Unknown.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔlo/ [ˈbɔ.lʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔlo
  • Hyphenation: bo‧lo

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. sand lance (Ammodytes)
    Synonym: areeiro

Etymology 2

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From bola (“piece of bread”), from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

Bolos

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbolo/ [ˈbo.lʊ]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: bo‧lo

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. ball of butter
    Synonym: pela
  4. lump
    Synonym: grumo
  5. clod
    Synonym: terrón
  6. pebble
    Synonym: croio
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Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bowl, French bol, German Bowle, Spanish bol.

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Noun

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bolo (plural boli)

  1. bowl

Italian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod, lump”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlo
  • Hyphenation: bò‧lo

Noun

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bolo m (plural boli)

  1. bolus
  2. cud

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Javanese

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Noun

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bolo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bala.

Koasati

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Noun

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bolo

  1. bream

Lingala

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Chemical element
B Next: kaboni (C)

Etymology

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From French bore.

Noun

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bolo class 9 (plural bolo class 10, colloquial plural babolo class 2)

  1. (chemistry) boron

Macanese

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bolo

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Portuguese bolo.

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Noun

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bolo

  1. Alternative form of bôlo: cake

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Portuguese

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bolo (1.1)

Etymology 1

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From bola. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -olu
  • Hyphenation: bo‧lo

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (cooking) cake
    1. dessert made with dough and sugar; common in celebrations
    2. any of various snacks made with dough, both sweet and salty
      Synonym: bolinho
  2. bunch, heap, mass (load of some material or of beings)
    Synonyms: monte, amontoado
    1. a bunch of money
  3. prize, reward
    Synonyms: prêmio, recompensa
  4. (Brazil) something said or done to mislead or deceive
    Synonyms: enganação, burla
  5. (Brazil) disarray, disorder chaos
    Synonyms: desordem, caos, confusão
  6. (Brazil, slang) the act of standing someone up (missing an appointment)
    Synonym: furo
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Malay: baulu
  • Kabuverdianu: bolu
  • Macanese: bolo

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bolo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bolar

Anagrams

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Further reading

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Serbo-Croatian

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Participle

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bolo (Cyrillic spelling боло)

  1. neuter singular active past participle of bosti

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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bolo

  1. neuter singular l-participle of byť

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbolo/ [ˈbo.lo]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Syllabification: bo‧lo

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin bolus.

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. bowling pin
  2. bolus
  3. (in the plural) bowling
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Adjective

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bolo (feminine bola, masculine plural bolos, feminine plural bolas)

  1. (colloquial, Central America) drunk
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borracho
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of bolívar.

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (Venezuela, slang) a bolívar (Venezuelan unit of currency)

Etymology 3

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (colloquial) gig

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Tagalog bolo.

Noun

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bolo m (plural bolos)

  1. (Philippines) bolo (long, single-edged machete)

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bolo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. bolo (long, single-edged machete)
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Anagrams

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Ternate

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Conjunction

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bolo

  1. or

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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