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Meaning of tontín



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1º_ 'Tontín' is an affectionate diminutive of "fool". 2º_ For the previous one, it was a name widely used for naïve or clueless characters or simply fools, especially in dubbing series and films in Spanish. Some of the best known are: a dwarf from the film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' (Walt Disney, 1937), which in the original version is called Dopey ("mute"), and also one of the series 'The 7E' (The 7D) based on the same characters; a smurf who was also called 'Clumsy' and in the Belgian original was Bêta ("stupid") or Maladroit ("clumsy"); one of the pilots of the animated series 'The Diabolical Squadron' (Dick Dastardly Muttley in their Flying Machines, Hanna-Barbera, 1969), who in the original was Zilly; it is also the name of characters from stories, clowns and surely the nickname of some person. See Pierre Nodoyuna , Patan .

  



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Dopey: Name given to one of the Smurfs.

  










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