jamacuco
Spanish, noun/xamaˈkuko/
jamacuco is spelled J-A-M-A-C-U-C-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish, the 277,009th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jamacuco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “flip; freakout (sudden alteration of the mood, losing the calm), parraque, yuyu (example: me dio un jamacuco)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Alteración repentina de los nervios o del comportamiento propio de un individuo”.
What does jamacuco mean in English?
noun
- 1
Spaincolloquialmasculineflip; freakout (sudden alteration of the mood, losing the calm), parraque, yuyu (example: me dio un jamacuco)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Alteración repentina de los nervios o del comportamiento propio de un individuo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of jamacuco
- jamacucos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jamacuco?
- /xamaˈkuko/
- [xa.maˈku.ko]
- [xamaˈkuko]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is jamacuco in Spanish?
jamacuco appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).