Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

furoya
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Position	2	2
Accepted meanings	15230	2
Obtained votes	125	2
Votes by meaning	0.01	7
Inquiries	441355	3
Queries by meaning	29	7
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homo homini lupus: The Latin phrase "Homo homini lupus [est]" ("Man is a wolf to man") is found in the work De Cive ("On the Citizen") by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, written in Latin in 1642, where he describes the selfish nature of the human species, capable of exterminating his own by ambition or greed. It has its antecedent in a fragment of the Asinaria (Plautus, third century BC). of C . ) where the verse "Lupus est homo homini . . . " .
mancornao: It is a vulgarization of mancornado ("cow immobilized by tying a horn to a front leg"). It is usually used figuratively for those who run out of options, unable to get out of a situation.
arreguindar: It is a word widely used in the Venezuelan Caribbean for "hanging heavily, holding something in the air" and figuratively "insistently besieging someone". It is used more as a pronominal, and is a variant of guindar or reguindar. See arrerse.
panochudo: This voice is related to a meaning of panocha as "vulva", and is applied to a male as a synonym for "cowardly" rather than by some feminine attitude. It does not have the same meaning as the lunfardo 'conchudo' (masculine of 'conchuda').
rastacuerismo: Attitude typical of a Rastacuero, his lifestyle.
lurio: It is said of a person groped, by sleep or by being intoxicated. The term was later expanded to any misplaced idiot, pedantic, . . .
firulais: Another way for firulays or firulay ("dog").
michifuz: It is a variant of Micifuf ("cat"). See also: michi michi , michu , michifú , Zapaquilda , michín , morrongo .
micifú: It is a variant of Micifuf ("cat"). See also: michi michi , michu , michifuz , Zapaquilda , michín , morrongo .
buscar cinco pies al gato: See "look for five legs to the cat", and - to mention it too - "look for three feet to the cat".
andar pato: It seems a version of "estar pato" ("without money"), although perhaps it refers to the "walking or walking of the duck", which is very characteristic, since on land it has an affected movement, inelegant. It can also be "being with diarrhea", like the Creole duck, which defecates all the time, even while walking. See patotero, be on the road.
campos: Field plural in any of its meanings.
contreltofobias: Plural of contreltophobia .
albedos: Plural of albedo .
pilas: Plural battery ("electric battery element", "stacked up") . See "put the batteries", "be stacked".
sínsoras: Although it must exist in the singular, the truth is that sínsora is not used. For Puerto Ricans it names "a distant, unknown place, without references"; and its etymology is still dubious, but the most popular says that it is a Puerto Rican adaptation for the ancient expression "the [strange] insulas" used by the Spanish expeditionaries to refer to those new lands explored in the sixteenth century, which for Europeans were distant and mysterious.
la bóveda de toro: La Bóveda de Toro is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Spain.
la coruña: La Coruña is a Spanish city and province, the Galician name is A Coruña.
el cochinet: 'El Cochinet' is a town in the province of Alicante ( Spain).
la mesa: 1º_ La Mesa is a municipality of the Tequendama Province (Cundinamarca, Colombia). The name is an allusion to the plateau where it is settled. 2º_ In some cases, where the context is understood, the article may refer to a specific (meeting) table such as "liaison table", "main entertainment table", . . . although for me it does not fit as a definition in a dictionary.