chapodado

(Sp. model spelled same [t∫ápo], of disputed origin. May be from Nahuatl tzapa 'dwarf' or from Spanish chaparro 'short, stubby person.' Sobarzo suggests it is the shortened form of the past participle chapodado, meaning 'cut off' [as the branches of a tree])

   Clark: 1850s. Short and stocky, chubby, or a person with those characteristics. Clark indicates that this term may also refer to a horse. Not referenced in the DRAE. Santamaría and Sobarzo gloss chapo as a noun or adjective that describes a short, fat person. Cobos indicates that the meaning is the same in New Mexico and southern Colorado and that chopo exists as an alternate form in Spanish.

    Alternate forms: chopo, chupo.