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  • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This sounds like the sort of thing that’s probably apocryphal but it’s a thing I was taught in Spanish class that’s certainly been linting up my brain ever since:

    The avocado got its name for an indigenous word for testicle, referring not only to its shape but also its texture; if you’ve got any testicles handy, their degree of softness is what a ripe avocado should feel like.

    • Evkob
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      1 year ago

      The word “āhuacatl” in Nahuatl from which avocado is derived simply meant avocado, however it was also used as a slang term for testicles. Very similar to how “nuts” is used as slang for testicles in English.