comprachico

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who deliberately mutilates a growing child in order to induce freakish physical traits.
    — But here in England a comprachico is equal to a murderer, a candidate for the hangman's noose.

词形变化

comprachicos plural

词源

Coined from Spanish roots by the French writer Victor Hugo in his 1869 novel L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs). The word is not generally known in Spanish.
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