cotilleo
See also: cotilleó
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kotiˈʝeo/ [ko.t̪iˈʝe.o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kotiˈʎeo/ [ko.t̪iˈʎe.o] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kotiˈʃeo/ [ko.t̪iˈʃe.o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kotiˈʒeo/ [ko.t̪iˈʒe.o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eo
- Syllabification: co‧ti‧lle‧o
Etymology 1
Deverbal from cotillear.
Noun
cotilleo m (plural cotilleos)
- gossip
- 2020 October 7, “Las jugosas memorias de Perez Hilton, el bloguero más escandaloso, entre el cotilleo y el ‘mea culpa’”, in El País[1]:
- Sus cotilleos, comentarios sarcásticos y mensajitos con Photoshop sobre las fotos de las estrellas llegaron a convertir a PerezHilton.com durante años en el portal de cotilleo más famoso del mundo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cotilleo
- first-person singular present indicative of cotillear
Further reading
- “cotilleo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025