Babieca

One of Spain's national heroes, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (a.k.a. El Cid), affectionately named his horse babieca, which means dumbbell or idiot. According to legend, when Bivar chose this scraggly colt, his father called him a babieca. Bivar applied the term to his horse, claiming that it would be a reminder of his father's doubts.