perfecto

Borrowed from Spanish perfecto (“perfect”). Doublet of perfect.

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfɛktəʊ/

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perfecto (comparative more perfecto, superlative most perfecto)

1. (informal, humorous) Perfect, excellent, brilliant.

perfecto (plural perfectos)

1. A large, tapered cigar.
   • 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.

2. (sports) In baseball or bowling, a perfect game.

Originally a trade mark (capitalised).

perfecto m (plural perfectos)

1. bomber jacket

From Latin perfectus.

perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)

1. perfect

• perfectamente

• “perfecto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

perfectō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of perfectus

Borrowed from Latin perfectus, partially borrowed as a learned term.

• IPA^(key): /peɾˈfeɡto/ [peɾˈfeɣ̞.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eɡto
• Syllabification: per‧fec‧to

perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)

1. perfect

   Synonym: impecable

• “perfecto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014