Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

furoya
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	Value	Position
Position	2	2
Accepted meanings	15204	2
Obtained votes	88	2
Votes by meaning	0.01	7
Inquiries	438974	3
Queries by meaning	29	7
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estar pato: It is an allusion to the phrase "to be dry", for "having no money". The relationship appears because ducks have a natural fat that rejects water and although they swim they always come out dry; although there is another possible origin that is in the gesture of putting your hands in the pockets of the pants and taking the fondillos out to show that they are empty, the position of the arms reminds of the movement of the wings of the ducks when leaving the water.
sacar faltas: It is a locution for "speaking badly of someone to discredit him, whether he would have committed faults or not". Seeing a hand, drawing fouls on someone, drawing, fouling and for some variant or confusion also draw a foul (in sports "resume the game after a penalty").
trekkies: Plural of trekkie ("Star Trek fan").
ciprinofobias: Plural of cyprinophobia .
serones: Plural of serón ("basket carried by pack animals" ).
legos: Plural of layman ( as a noun or adjective ) .
chirilicas: Plural of chirilica, variant of chirolica ("monedita, diminutive of chirola") . See chirolita (currency) by etymology.
lacios: Plural of some meanings of lazio .
centauros: Plural of centaur (mythological creature) . See hypocentaur.
créditos: 1º_ Plural of credit in its various meanings. 2º_ In cinematography it is called 'credits' to the list of names of actors, producers, technical staff, administrative, all those who have participated in the realization of a film and who appear recognized on screen, usually towards the end of the screening.
bullhorn: It means "megaphone", speaker with a microphone. In principle it was a metal cone to direct the voice towards a place (128227; ) and because of its shape it was associated with the "bull horn".
samsa: Before an argento-Colombian spam, 'samsa' can be a Turkish dessert of almonds, honey and orange blossom water, although there are salty and spicy versions. He is also the main character of the short story Die Verwandlung ("The Metamorphosis", Franz Kafka, 1915) where Gregorio Samsa ends up turned into an insect. It may even be an acronym such as Substance Abuse and Mental-Health Services Administration, even if it is not in Spanish.
chunky: It is clear that Ingles/chunky ("robust, corpulent") is not a Word in Spanish, nor is it used in our language.
bércol: Surely a mistake for broccoli ("broccoli").
picte: 1º_ It is the name of a variety of tamal, usually prepared with corn. There is no agreement on its etymology, but it probably originates from the Nahuatl pic'tl ("compact, harden"). 2º_ In Argentina 'PICTE' is an acronym that was used for a tender for the purchase of technical equipment, whose development is "Research Projects (destined to the purchase of) Scientific and Technological Equipment". 3º_ In English the acronym 'PICTE' can stand for Primary Image Capture and Transform Element ("Main Element of capture and transformation of images") that is used in computer science.
miski: See Quechua/miski ("sweet") , Misky ( "candy brand" )
bimembración: It is a figure of speech where a phrase is divided into two members, usually by a conjunction, and in each there is a parallelism in the words in order, grammatical hierarchy, melody. It is formed by the prefix bi- ( "two, double" ) member ( "part of something" ) -tion ( creates deverbal nouns ) . See polymembration .
homónimo: 1º_ They are words that are written the same but have different meanings. It is a voice of the Greek 959; 956; 959; 962; ( we hear "equal, the same" ) 959; 957; 959; 956; 945; ( onoma "name") . 2º_ It is also said of each namesake ("people with the same name").
metátesis: 1º_ It is a literary device by which letters or sounds are changed within a word. It comes from the Greek 956; 949; 964; 945; 952; 949; 963; 953; 962; ( metathesis "transposition, exchange of place") . 2º_ In chemistry it is a process of exchange of bonds between two metal compounds.
ironía: In rhetoric it is an expression that is used as a mockery or contempt by naming something by pretending to say something else, or mentioning some characteristic opposite to that expected. Also the affected tone of voice with which it is said. By extension, it is any situation where something unexpected happens and opposite to what we assume should happen. Spanish inherits the word from Latin, which takes it from the Greek 949; 953; 961; 969; 957; 949; 953; 945; ( eironeía "to speak simulating ignorance") .