sacamantecas

Spanish

Etymology

sacar +‎ manteca (one story was that the sacamantecas kidnapped children to make an ointment from their fat)

Noun

sacamantecas m (plural sacamantecas)

bogeyman

Further reading

“sacamantecas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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