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cantúo

/kanˈtuo/

adjective/kanˈtuo/

Well-built, strapping, robust, hefty or physically attractive and thickset. (Usually referring to someone with a strong, muscular, or shapely physique).; Substantial, hefty, large, thick.

Vaya chaval más cantúo se ha vuelto desde que va al gimnasio.What a strapping lad he's become since he started hitting the gym.

Synonyms: fuerte, troncho, petao, buenorro, grueso, gordo, hermoso

From canto (“edge, thickness, chunk”) + the suffix -udo (denoting abundance or prominence), with standard Andalusian dropping of the intervocalic -d- to yield -úo. Literally "having prominent edges or thickness".