huevos

Hue·vos
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noun

Huevos rancheros, a Mexican breakfast dish

OriginSpanish huevo →
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Meanings

huevos1

noun
  1. pluralplural of huevo.
nounhuevos pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyHuevos rancheros, a Mexican breakfast dish

    I dig into my huevos.

    2007 January 7, Charles Baxter, “Breakfast of Champions”, in New York Times
  2. pluralplural onlyslangBalls; nerve; bravery; brazenness.

    In this business a man has to have balls, real huevos, Dwayne.”

    2001, Lee Taylor, Bull, →ISBN, page 2
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    Fortunately the magneto's power was limited, or the rods would have circled the table until one of the men had proved that he had real huevos, the implication being that the rest of the men were pussies.

    1974, Jerry Kamstra, Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler, page 126

    They also think you've got some pretty big huevos to be as close to him as you are.

    2018, Daniel Lines, Crohn's, and a Life with the Other Big "C" (Kind Of), →ISBN

Huevos2

proper noun
  1. An island of Trinidad and Tobago.

Origin

  1. Spanishhuevo“egg”
  2. EnglishHuevos

Derived from the plural form of Spanish huevo (“egg”). The island is named for the ease of gathering iguana and bird eggs there.

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APA

huevos. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huevos

MLA

“huevos.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huevos. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “huevos,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huevos.

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