Here I am, messing around with Spanish, looking up the occasional word, and I come to the word tontonito. Know what tontonito means in Spanish? It means silly. Tontonito is the diminutive form of the word tonto. Know what tonto means in Spanish and the Spanish influenced native languages of the Southwest? Fool.
What!? Tonto means fool? All those years ago, watching the Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick Tonto, riding the range together out west every week. Trusting companions calling each other Kemosabe, and they gave him a name that means fool? Please tell me it’s not so!