Meanings
perfecto1
comparative more perfecto · superlative most perfecto
plural perfectos
- A large, tapered cigar.
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1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 99. 'Well the only thing I can advise,' I said, 'is that you cultivate him assiduously. Waylay him and give him cigars... Tell him it's a fine day. He has a dog named Edward. Seek Edward out and pat him. Many a young man has won over the father of the girl he loves by such tactics, so why not you?' He agreed to do so, and in the days which followed Poskitt could not show his face in the clubhouse without having Wilmot spring out at him with perfectos.
Perfecto2
Origin
perfecto · adjective, noun
- Latinperfectus
- Spanishperfecto“perfect”
- Englishperfecto
Borrowed from Spanish perfecto (“perfect”), from Latin perfectus. Doublet of parfait, perfect, and perfectus.
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Full word history & related roots →Perfecto · proper noun
- SpanishPerfecto
- EnglishPerfecto
Borrowed from Spanish Perfecto. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
perfecto. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perfecto
“perfecto.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perfecto. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perfecto,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perfecto.
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