CHOTO 1 . Colloquially, snitch, informer. Ah Chota is the police confidant , by metonymy we derive in chota , as a policeman . In Spain chotar means to tell someone. The choto, which is the breeding of the goat, chota or mama of mama goat, that sucking opening and closing the mouth is the metaphorical origin of "opening the mouth" or being a snitch, metaphor by informer. It would derive in Mexico: joto, homosexual, because chotar means to suck, with the usual transformation from ch to jota.
