Not that I'm really an etymology geek

[orelalaith]

But I was curios; I kinda figured it wasn't derived from the same language; but hey, let's see:

puto: from Wiktionary; there's apparently multiple meanings to it (a tasty cake, an annoying kid; to cleanse, and our favorite, a male prostitute/gay)

Follow the link for the others, but apparently, the Latin American term came from the spanish "puta" or

Comments

[thevirtualjim]

'puta' is more similar to 'pussy' in the way it is used in latin america but I am not sure it came over from Spain (although the only ones I hear speaking Spain Spanish wouldn't be using that kind of language!)

[page_of_swords]

Yeah, it's the negative slang word.