Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name in the Fiji Islands of turmeric, Curcuma longa. See Curcuma, 2, huldee, turmeric, *olena, and *rea.

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Examples

  • McMurdo, accustomed only to the prosaic performances of Chi - cago, listened with open ears and more surprise than he ventured to show to what followed.

    Chennai 2010

  • It's our way of saying the * chi* sound, I think * chi* cano, * chi* cago? rather than Shicago like all those non spanish speakers. haha.

    Viva Latina blogging! 2008

  • July 6, 2009 at 3:36 pm cmc casi me cago if ur latin ull b cmc now

    I don’t do “Get it, boy”. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Principal for a Day is a major event every year in Chi-cago.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • Expressions like "me cago en la hostia" y "me cago en Dios" are absolutely unthinkable to Central Americans and I'd venture to guess, to most South Americans, too.

    languagehat.com: TRANSLATING CURSES. 2004

  • I remember seeing a travel poster advertising Chicago, and saying to Rafa, “Do you think Americans know what cago means in Spanish?”

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

  • In the last several months, he had, over Margarite's protests and best defenses, maneuvered and manhandled his way to controlling the Chi - cago and midwestern Families.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • S. Crane, the main spokesman of the so-called “Chi - cago Aristotelianism.”

    LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

  • "But me cago en la leche, but I will be content when it starts."

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • He fired and said, "Me cago en tal; I missed him again."

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

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