Meaning

3 senses
  1. (UK, colloquial)A pint of milk.

  2. (uncountable)A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis.

  3. (slang, uncountable)Prison

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa. Borrowed from Spanish pinta. Borr

From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa.

Borrowed from Spanish pinta.

Borrowed from Spanish.

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Forms

plural: pintas
Singularpinta
Pluralpintas

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpintid

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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