mano
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mano
1895–1900, < Spanish: literally, hand < Latin manus; cf. manual
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Their long awaited mano a mano could arrive as soon as Sunday at Aronimink, where they will tee off as the top two favorites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“Just like that, they’re going head to head, toe to toe, mano a mango.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Among Italians, "mano morta" accurately pinpoints this intentional behaviour.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022
Usually words ending in "-o" are masculine and those ending in "-a" are feminine, but there are many common words that break those gender rules, like "la mano," the word for "hand."
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2022
Pi was an ordinary man living in Waimea, Kauai, who wanted to construct a mano, or dam, across the Waimea River and a watercourse therefrom to a point near Kikiaola.
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thrum, Thomas G. (Thomas George)
Quitapenas singer Daniel Gomez opens the lament by describing the "callos en las palmas de tus manos" — the callouses on your hands — of his brother, then turns to a sister's endless working days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2018
“Pon las manos atras,” one of the agents shouted.
From Washington Post
Some time in the middle rounds, Duran's right hand began to ache, and anyway, Duran did well to keep his manos de piedras up to defend himself in the last two rounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Abajo las manos," Dick had said—just in time, for Pépe el Lagarto's hands hung by his sides once more when Mrs. Brundage came round the corner and caught her first sight of him.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver
He had seen clam dredges bringing up bushels of soft-shelled, long-necked clams that the dredgers called "manos," and he had seen the famous Maryland "bugeyes" and "skip-jacks"—sailing craft used for dredging oysters.
From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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