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cant

  • 1 cante

    cant

    Vocabulario Castellano-Catalán > cante

  • 2 cuaderna revirada

    • cant timber

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > cuaderna revirada

  • 3 germanía

    • cant
    • slang

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > germanía

  • 4 canto

    cant, cante, cantell, canto

    Vocabulario Castellano-Catalán > canto

  • 5 argot

    m.
    1 slang.
    2 argot, jargon, slang, slang used in a specific field or by a specific group.
    * * *
    1 (popular) slang
    2 (técnico) jargon
    * * *
    [ar'ɡo]
    SM (pl argots) slang
    * * *
    masculino (pl - gots) slang
    * * *
    = slang, argot, slang word, cant, lingo.
    Ex. Some specialized dictionaries cover acronyms, usage, pronunciation, spelling, etymology, slang, rhymes, and so on.
    Ex. To speak the argot, one of the main rules is called 'police palaver' -- never use a short word where a long one will do.
    Ex. Wine lovers around the world have joyously adopted the British slang word 'plonk' to describe poor, cheap wine.
    Ex. This essay traces the changing status of cant and vulgar languages in eighteenth-century Britain.
    Ex. Every profession has its lingo, that is to say its list of frequently used terms familiar to practitioners of that profession.
    ----
    * argot de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * argot de los ladrones = thieves' cant.
    * argot secreto de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * llena de argot = slangy.
    * * *
    masculino (pl - gots) slang
    * * *
    = slang, argot, slang word, cant, lingo.

    Ex: Some specialized dictionaries cover acronyms, usage, pronunciation, spelling, etymology, slang, rhymes, and so on.

    Ex: To speak the argot, one of the main rules is called 'police palaver' -- never use a short word where a long one will do.
    Ex: Wine lovers around the world have joyously adopted the British slang word 'plonk' to describe poor, cheap wine.
    Ex: This essay traces the changing status of cant and vulgar languages in eighteenth-century Britain.
    Ex: Every profession has its lingo, that is to say its list of frequently used terms familiar to practitioners of that profession.
    * argot de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * argot de los ladrones = thieves' cant.
    * argot secreto de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * llena de argot = slangy.

    * * *
    (pl - gots)
    slang
    el argot estudiantil student slang
    * * *

    argot sustantivo masculino (pl
    ◊ - gots) slang

    argot m (de un grupo social) slang
    (de un grupo profesional) jargon

    ' argot' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alucinar
    - alucinante
    - anfetamina
    - basca
    - caballo
    - camella
    - camello
    - cantar
    - canuto
    - china
    - chocolate
    - chupa
    - chutarse
    - chute
    - ciega
    - ciego
    - coca
    - colega
    - colgada
    - colgado
    - colocar
    - colocarse
    - costo
    - enganchada
    - enganchado
    - enrollarse
    - esnifar
    - forzuda
    - forzudo
    - goma
    - guiri
    - hierba
    - jerga
    - kilo
    - lechera
    - macarra
    - madero
    - mangar
    - maría
    - molar
    - mona
    - mono
    - mujer
    - nieve
    - picarse
    - porro
    - privar
    - rajar
    - talego
    - telefonear
    English:
    beak
    - bleeding
    - bog
    - bomb
    - bonkers
    - bop
    - bozo
    - bread
    - bust
    - buy
    - buzz off
    - clap
    - cock up
    - cold turkey
    - come
    - con
    - cookie
    - croak
    - curtain
    - do in
    - dope
    - dough
    - drag
    - dude
    - dyke
    - fairy
    - fix
    - flaky
    - flash
    - flog
    - flophouse
    - funky
    - grand
    - grass
    - groovy
    - grope
    - grub
    - grunge
    - gut
    - hash
    - heavy
    - high
    - hole
    - hooked
    - hop
    - horny
    - hot air
    - hot water
    - in-your-face
    - inside
    * * *
    argot (pl argots) nm
    1. [popular] slang
    2. [técnico] jargon
    * * *
    m slang
    * * *
    argot nm
    : slang
    * * *
    1. (coloquial) slang
    2. (profesional) jargon

    Spanish-English dictionary > argot

  • 6 peralte

    m.
    1 banking.
    2 cant, superelevation.
    3 camber.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: peraltar.
    * * *
    * * *
    SM (Arquit) cant, slope; [de curva, carretera] banking, camber
    * * *
    masculino ( en pista) banking; ( en carretera) bank, cant
    * * *
    = camber.
    Ex. A sliding object will tend to deviate in the direction of the camber and that factor must be considered before other possibilities are suggested.
    * * *
    masculino ( en pista) banking; ( en carretera) bank, cant
    * * *

    Ex: A sliding object will tend to deviate in the direction of the camber and that factor must be considered before other possibilities are suggested.

    * * *
    1 (en una pista) banking, camber
    2 (en una carretera) bank, cant, camber
    * * *
    [de carretera] banking
    * * *
    m camber

    Spanish-English dictionary > peralte

  • 7 argot de los cacos

    Ex. The highlight of his reading of criminal culture is his perceptive discussion of thieves' cant, which he interprets as the audible social impact of criminal culture.
    * * *

    Ex: The highlight of his reading of criminal culture is his perceptive discussion of thieves' cant, which he interprets as the audible social impact of criminal culture.

    Spanish-English dictionary > argot de los cacos

  • 8 argot de los ladrones

    Ex. The highlight of his reading of criminal culture is his perceptive discussion of thieves' cant, which he interprets as the audible social impact of criminal culture.
    * * *

    Ex: The highlight of his reading of criminal culture is his perceptive discussion of thieves' cant, which he interprets as the audible social impact of criminal culture.

    Spanish-English dictionary > argot de los ladrones

  • 9 argot secreto de los cacos

    Ex. The highlight of his reading of criminal culture is his perceptive discussion of thieves' cant, which he interprets as the audible social impact of criminal culture.
    * * *

    Ex: The highlight of his reading of criminal culture is his perceptive discussion of thieves' cant, which he interprets as the audible social impact of criminal culture.

    Spanish-English dictionary > argot secreto de los cacos

  • 10 caco

    m.
    1 thief (informal).
    2 pickpocket, thief.
    * * *
    1 familiar thief
    * * *
    masculino (fam) thief
    * * *
    = burglar, thief [thieves, -pl.], robber.
    Ex. Most children can easily see that they need to read if they want to know what it is like to be a sportsman, a nurse, a burglar, a pilot, a patient in a hospital = La mayoría de los niños pueden ver fácilmente que necesitan leer si quieren conocer lo que significa ser deportista, enfermero, ladrón, piloto, paciente de hospital.
    Ex. Thieves detected by a security system seem to be largely acting on impulse, or absent-minded or trying to beat the system for sport.
    Ex. Some headings are vague and without scope notes to define them: robbers AND OUTLAWS; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.
    ----
    * argot de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * argot secreto de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * * *
    masculino (fam) thief
    * * *
    = burglar, thief [thieves, -pl.], robber.

    Ex: Most children can easily see that they need to read if they want to know what it is like to be a sportsman, a nurse, a burglar, a pilot, a patient in a hospital = La mayoría de los niños pueden ver fácilmente que necesitan leer si quieren conocer lo que significa ser deportista, enfermero, ladrón, piloto, paciente de hospital.

    Ex: Thieves detected by a security system seem to be largely acting on impulse, or absent-minded or trying to beat the system for sport.
    Ex: Some headings are vague and without scope notes to define them: robbers AND OUTLAWS; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.
    * argot de los cacos = thieves' cant.
    * argot secreto de los cacos = thieves' cant.

    * * *
    ( fam)
    burglar
    * * *

    caco sustantivo masculino (fam) burglar
    caco sustantivo masculino familiar thief
    * * *
    caco nm
    Fam thief
    * * *
    m fam
    thief
    * * *
    caco n thief [pl. thieves] / burglar

    Spanish-English dictionary > caco

  • 11 charlatanería falsa

    (n.) = cant
    Ex. His book merits high praise for its thoroughness and complete lack of cant.
    * * *
    (n.) = cant

    Ex: His book merits high praise for its thoroughness and complete lack of cant.

    Spanish-English dictionary > charlatanería falsa

  • 12 hipocresía

    f.
    hypocrisy, falseness, deceit, falsehood.
    * * *
    1 hypocrisy
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino hypocrisy
    * * *
    = hypocrisy, cant.
    Ex. Hypocrisy cannot be easily eradicated from human conduct.
    Ex. His book merits high praise for its thoroughness and complete lack of cant.
    * * *
    femenino hypocrisy
    * * *
    = hypocrisy, cant.

    Ex: Hypocrisy cannot be easily eradicated from human conduct.

    Ex: His book merits high praise for its thoroughness and complete lack of cant.

    * * *
    hypocrisy
    * * *

    hipocresía sustantivo femenino
    hypocrisy
    hipocresía sustantivo femenino hypocrisy
    ' hipocresía' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    trasfondo
    English:
    duplicity
    - hypocrisy
    * * *
    hypocrisy
    * * *
    f hypocrisy
    * * *
    : hypocrisy

    Spanish-English dictionary > hipocresía

  • 13 ladrón

    adj.
    thieving.
    m.
    thief, burglar, robber, housebreaker.
    * * *
    1 thieving
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (persona - que roba) thief; (- que tima, engaña) crook
    1 (enchufe) adaptor
    \
    ¡al ladrón! stop thief!
    ————————
    1 (enchufe) adaptor
    * * *
    (f. - ladrona)
    noun
    thief, robber
    * * *
    ladrón, -ona
    1.
    2.
    SM / F thief

    ¡al ladrón! — stop thief!

    ladrón/ona de guante blanco — white-collar criminal

    ladrón/ona de identidades — identity thief

    3.
    SM (Elec) adaptor
    * * *
    - drona masculino, femenino
    1) (de bolsos, coches) thief; ( de bancos) bank robber; ( de casas) burglar

    aquí son unos ladrones — (fam) they really rip you off in here (colloq)

    2) ladrón masculino (Elec) adaptor
    * * *
    = robber, thief [thieves, -pl.], burglar, crook.
    Ex. Some headings are vague and without scope notes to define them: robbers AND OUTLAWS; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.
    Ex. Thieves detected by a security system seem to be largely acting on impulse, or absent-minded or trying to beat the system for sport.
    Ex. Most children can easily see that they need to read if they want to know what it is like to be a sportsman, a nurse, a burglar, a pilot, a patient in a hospital = La mayoría de los niños pueden ver fácilmente que necesitan leer si quieren conocer lo que significa ser deportista, enfermero, ladrón, piloto, paciente de hospital.
    Ex. The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    ----
    * argot de los ladrones = thieves' cant.
    * argot secreto de los ladrones = thieves' cant.
    * ladrón de corazones = lady-killer.
    * ladrón de información = info-thief.
    * * *
    - drona masculino, femenino
    1) (de bolsos, coches) thief; ( de bancos) bank robber; ( de casas) burglar

    aquí son unos ladrones — (fam) they really rip you off in here (colloq)

    2) ladrón masculino (Elec) adaptor
    * * *
    = robber, thief [thieves, -pl.], burglar, crook.

    Ex: Some headings are vague and without scope notes to define them: robbers AND OUTLAWS; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.

    Ex: Thieves detected by a security system seem to be largely acting on impulse, or absent-minded or trying to beat the system for sport.
    Ex: Most children can easily see that they need to read if they want to know what it is like to be a sportsman, a nurse, a burglar, a pilot, a patient in a hospital = La mayoría de los niños pueden ver fácilmente que necesitan leer si quieren conocer lo que significa ser deportista, enfermero, ladrón, piloto, paciente de hospital.
    Ex: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    * argot de los ladrones = thieves' cant.
    * argot secreto de los ladrones = thieves' cant.
    * ladrón de corazones = lady-killer.
    * ladrón de información = info-thief.

    * * *
    ( fam); thieving ( before n)
    son muy ladrones en ese restaurante they're such crooks o they really rip you off in that restaurant ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    A (de bolsos, coches) thief; (de bancos) bank robber; (de casas) burglar
    en esta tienda son unos ladrones ( fam); they're real crooks in this store ( colloq), they really rip you off in this store ( colloq)
    el que roba a un ladrón tiene cien años de perdón it's no crime to steal from a thief
    piensa el ladrón que todos son de su condición evildoers always think the worst of others
    B
    ladrón masculine ( Elec) adaptor
    * * *

     

    ladrón
    ◊ - drona sustantivo masculino, femenino

    1 (de bolsos, coches) thief;
    ( de bancos) bank robber;
    ( de casas) burglar
    2
    ◊ ladrón sustantivo masculino (Elec) adaptor

    ladrón,-ona
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino thief, robber: ¡al ladrón!, stop thief!
    II m Elec multiple socket o adaptor
    La traducción más fácil y más general es thief. Robber implica alguna forma de agresividad. También existe la palabra burglar, que describe a la persona que entra en una casa con intención de robar. ➣ Ver nota en robar.
    ' ladrón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    asaltante
    - bandida
    - bandido
    - choriza
    - chorizo
    - descolgarse
    - ladrona
    - mangante
    - robar
    - salir
    - suelta
    - suelto
    - ahuyentar
    - caza
    - coger
    - introducir
    - penetrar
    - quitar
    - ratero
    - reducir
    - sinvergüenza
    English:
    adapter
    - adaptor
    - arm
    - blurt out
    - burglar
    - catch
    - get
    - ghoul
    - hear of
    - robber
    - shoplifter
    - thief
    - throw off
    - chase
    - pursuit
    - rustler
    - shop
    - suggest
    * * *
    ladrón, -ona
    ♦ adj
    thieving;
    en esa tienda son muy ladrones they're real crooks in that shop
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] [de coches] thief; [de bancos] robber; [de casas] burglar;
    ese tendero es un ladrón that shopkeeper is a crook;
    cree o [m5] piensa el ladrón que todos son de su condición evildoers expect the worst of everyone
    ladrón de guante blanco gentleman burglar o thief; Am ladrón y poli [juego infantil] cops and robbers
    ♦ nm
    [para enchufes] adaptor
    * * *
    1 m EL fam
    adapter
    2 m, ladrona f thief
    * * *
    ladrón, - drona n, mpl
    ladrones : robber, thief, burglar
    * * *
    1. (en general) thief [pl. thieves]
    2. (en una casa) burglar
    3. (en un banco) robber

    Spanish-English dictionary > ladrón

  • 14 lenguaje coloquial

    m.
    colloquial language, idiomatic language.
    * * *
    (n.) = slang, colloquial language, familiar language, cant
    Ex. Some specialized dictionaries cover acronyms, usage, pronunciation, spelling, etymology, slang, rhymes, and so on.
    Ex. Documentation systems have suffered from the use of descriptors insufficiently keyed to colloquial language.
    Ex. Boolean logic should be properly explained and jargon kept to a minimum, preferring the familiar language of print resources.
    Ex. This essay traces the changing status of cant and vulgar languages in eighteenth-century Britain.
    * * *
    (n.) = slang, colloquial language, familiar language, cant

    Ex: Some specialized dictionaries cover acronyms, usage, pronunciation, spelling, etymology, slang, rhymes, and so on.

    Ex: Documentation systems have suffered from the use of descriptors insufficiently keyed to colloquial language.
    Ex: Boolean logic should be properly explained and jargon kept to a minimum, preferring the familiar language of print resources.
    Ex: This essay traces the changing status of cant and vulgar languages in eighteenth-century Britain.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lenguaje coloquial

  • 15 ángulo

    m.
    1 angle, slant.
    2 corner, nook.
    3 angle, point of view, outlook, standpoint.
    4 flexura, flexure.
    * * *
    1 angle
    2 (rincón) corner
    \
    en ángulo con at an angle to
    ángulo de tiro elevation
    ángulo recto right angle
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM (Mat) angle; (=esquina) corner; (=curva) bend, turning; (Mec) knee, bend

    de ángulo ancho — (Fot) wide-angle

    ángulo de subida — (Aer) angle of climb

    ángulo de toma — (Fot) angle of shooting

    ángulo muerto — (Aut) blind spot

    de o en ángulo recto — right-angled

    * * *
    masculino (Mat) angle; (rincón, esquina) corner; ( punto de vista) angle
    * * *
    = angle, cant.
    Ex. References or added entries must supplement the first or main entry and cater for access from other angles.
    Ex. The unloading rate onto a conveyor belt may be varied by placing the case on a platform with adjustable cant.
    ----
    * ángulo de visión = viewing angle.
    * ángulo muerto = blind spot.
    * angulo recto = right angle.
    * en ángulo = angled.
    * en ángulo recto = at right angles.
    * presentar Algo desde un nuevo ángulo = throw + new light on.
    * * *
    masculino (Mat) angle; (rincón, esquina) corner; ( punto de vista) angle
    * * *
    = angle, cant.

    Ex: References or added entries must supplement the first or main entry and cater for access from other angles.

    Ex: The unloading rate onto a conveyor belt may be varied by placing the case on a platform with adjustable cant.
    * ángulo de visión = viewing angle.
    * ángulo muerto = blind spot.
    * angulo recto = right angle.
    * en ángulo = angled.
    * en ángulo recto = at right angles.
    * presentar Algo desde un nuevo ángulo = throw + new light on.

    * * *
    1 ( Mat) angle
    2 (rincón, esquina) corner
    en un ángulo del salón in a corner of the lounge
    Compuestos:
    acute angle
    angle of incidence
    angle of sight
    angle of refraction
    blind spot
    oblique angle
    obtuse angle
    right angle
    mpl adjacent angles (pl)
    mpl exterior alternate angles (pl)
    mpl interior alternate angles (pl)
    * * *

    ángulo sustantivo masculino (Mat) angle;
    (rincón, esquina) corner;
    ( punto de vista) angle;

    ángulo sustantivo masculino
    1 angle
    2 (rincón, esquina) corner

    ' ángulo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abertura
    - recta
    - recto
    - rincón
    - seno
    - agudo
    - derecho
    - externo
    - inclinación
    - plano
    - vértice
    English:
    acute
    - angle
    - approach
    - degree
    - right
    - right angle
    - sharp
    - tilt
    - corner
    - square
    * * *
    1. [figura geométrica] angle
    ángulo agudo acute angle;
    ángulo de aproximación [de avión] angle of approach;
    Mat ángulo complementario complementary angle;
    ángulo crítico critical angle;
    Fís ángulo de incidencia angle of incidence;
    ángulo interno interior angle;
    ángulo llano straight angle;
    Mil ángulo de mira line of sight;
    ángulo muerto [de espejo retrovisor] blind spot;
    ángulo obtuso obtuse angle;
    ángulo rectilíneo plane angle;
    ángulo recto right angle;
    ángulo de reflexión angle of reflection;
    ángulo de refracción angle of refraction;
    Mil ángulo de tiro elevation
    2. [rincón] corner
    3. [punto de vista] angle;
    visto desde este ángulo seen from this angle
    * * *
    m MAT, fig
    angle
    * * *
    1) : angle
    2) : corner
    3)
    ángulo muerto : blind spot
    * * *
    ángulo n angle

    Spanish-English dictionary > ángulo

  • 16 cabeza de chorlito

    familiar scatterbrain
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (fam) scatterbrain (colloq)
    * * *
    (n.) = scatterbrain, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], ditz, dits, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, empty-headed, bonehead, birdbrain, nong, ning-nong
    Ex. A 'characterology' can be created, from the author who is himself a precise archivist to the scatterbrain who throws nothing away.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. Thanks to those who do this for ning-nongs like myself.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (fam) scatterbrain (colloq)
    * * *
    (n.) = scatterbrain, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], ditz, dits, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, empty-headed, bonehead, birdbrain, nong, ning-nong

    Ex: A 'characterology' can be created, from the author who is himself a precise archivist to the scatterbrain who throws nothing away.

    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: Thanks to those who do this for ning-nongs like myself.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cabeza de chorlito

  • 17 cabeza hueca

    adj.
    empty-headed, featherbrained, small-headed.
    f. & m.
    airhead, knucklehead, clunk.
    * * *
    scatterbrain
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (fam) scatterbrain (colloq); airhead (colloq)
    * * *
    (n.) = empty-headed, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], ditz, dits, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, bonehead, nong, ning-nong
    Ex. Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. Thanks to those who do this for ning-nongs like myself.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (fam) scatterbrain (colloq); airhead (colloq)
    * * *
    (n.) = empty-headed, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], ditz, dits, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, bonehead, nong, ning-nong

    Ex: Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: Thanks to those who do this for ning-nongs like myself.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cabeza hueca

  • 18 charlatanería

    f.
    1 uncontrolled talkativeness, idle talk, blab, chatter.
    2 unsustained claim.
    3 quackery, deceptiveness, false pretenses, charlatanism.
    * * *
    1 (palabrería) verbosity, talkativeness
    2 (de vendedor) spiel, patter
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=locuacidad) talkativeness; pey hot air
    2) (=chismorreo) gossip
    3) (=engaños) quackery, charlatanism
    4) [de vendedor] sales talk, patter
    * * *
    a) ( locuacidad) talkativeness
    b) ( arte de vender) clever o cunning salesmanship; ( palabras) patter
    * * *
    = chatter, charlatanism.
    Ex. Thoughts of this sort kept running about like clockwork mice in his head, while the murmur of chatter filled the room and outside dusk had yielded to black night.
    Ex. Simon's work is fascinating as a piece of charlatanism, as a text it is a dull read.
    ----
    * charlatanería falsa = cant.
    * * *
    a) ( locuacidad) talkativeness
    b) ( arte de vender) clever o cunning salesmanship; ( palabras) patter
    * * *
    = chatter, charlatanism.

    Ex: Thoughts of this sort kept running about like clockwork mice in his head, while the murmur of chatter filled the room and outside dusk had yielded to black night.

    Ex: Simon's work is fascinating as a piece of charlatanism, as a text it is a dull read.
    * charlatanería falsa = cant.

    * * *
    1 (locuacidad) talkativeness
    2 (arte de vender) clever o cunning salesmanship; (palabras) patter, spiel
    * * *
    1. [locuacidad] talkativeness
    2. Pey [palabrería] spiel
    * * *
    f talkativeness

    Spanish-English dictionary > charlatanería

  • 19 coloquial

    adj.
    colloquial.
    * * *
    1 colloquial
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo colloquial
    * * *
    = colloquial, conversational.
    Ex. Assembler is the colloquial term for assembly language which lies between the low-level machine code and high-level languages.
    Ex. The old expressions 'spin a yarn', 'weave a tale' suggest the anecdotal, conversational quality that must be striven for by the storyteller.
    ----
    * lenguaje coloquial = slang, colloquial language, familiar language, cant.
    * palabra coloquial = slang word.
    * * *
    adjetivo colloquial
    * * *
    = colloquial, conversational.

    Ex: Assembler is the colloquial term for assembly language which lies between the low-level machine code and high-level languages.

    Ex: The old expressions 'spin a yarn', 'weave a tale' suggest the anecdotal, conversational quality that must be striven for by the storyteller.
    * lenguaje coloquial = slang, colloquial language, familiar language, cant.
    * palabra coloquial = slang word.

    * * *
    colloquial
    * * *

    coloquial adjetivo
    colloquial
    coloquial adjetivo colloquial
    ' coloquial' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cuenta
    English:
    colloquial
    - colloquialism
    - conversational
    * * *
    colloquial
    * * *
    adj colloquial
    * * *
    : colloquial

    Spanish-English dictionary > coloquial

  • 20 estúpido

    adj.
    1 stupid, foolish, dumb, empty-headed.
    2 stupid, foolish, inane, dumb.
    m.
    stupid, nitwit, fathead, numbskull.
    * * *
    1 stupid, silly
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 berk, idiot
    * * *
    1. (f. - estúpida)
    adj.
    2. (f. - estúpida)
    noun f.
    * * *
    estúpido, -a
    1.
    ADJ stupid
    2.
    SM / F idiot
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, silly

    ay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!

    II
    - da masculino, femenino idiot, fool
    * * *
    = crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.
    Ex. Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.
    Ex. We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.
    Ex. It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
    Ex. In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.
    Ex. By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.
    Ex. Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.
    Ex. When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.
    Ex. Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.
    Ex. I think some people would think my approach is nuts.
    Ex. She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. That was a big boneheaded error.
    Ex. Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.
    Ex. Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.
    Ex. The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.
    Ex. The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.
    Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex. Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
    Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex. An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex. Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.
    Ex. I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.
    Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    ----
    * algo estúpido = no-brainer.
    * como un estúpido = stupidly.
    * hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.
    * ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, silly

    ay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!

    II
    - da masculino, femenino idiot, fool
    * * *
    = crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.

    Ex: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.

    Ex: We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.
    Ex: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
    Ex: In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.
    Ex: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex: When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.
    Ex: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.
    Ex: When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.
    Ex: Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.
    Ex: I think some people would think my approach is nuts.
    Ex: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: That was a big boneheaded error.
    Ex: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.
    Ex: Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.
    Ex: The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.
    Ex: The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.
    Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex: Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
    Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex: Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.
    Ex: I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.
    Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    * algo estúpido = no-brainer.
    * como un estúpido = stupidly.
    * hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.
    * ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.

    * * *
    estúpido1 -da
    ‹persona› stupid; ‹argumento› stupid, silly
    ay, qué estúpida, me equivoqué oh, how stupid of me, I've done it wrong
    un gasto estúpido a stupid waste of money
    es estúpido que vayamos las dos it's silly o stupid for us both to go
    estúpido2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    idiot, fool
    el estúpido de mi hermano my stupid brother
    * * *

     

    estúpido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ persona› stupid;


    ‹ argumento› stupid, silly;
    ◊ ¡ay, qué estúpida soy! oh, how stupid of me!

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    idiot, fool
    estúpido,-a
    I adjetivo stupid
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino idiot

    ' estúpido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    burra
    - burro
    - estúpida
    - animal
    - apendejarse
    - baboso
    - caballo
    - el
    - embromar
    - gafo
    - huevón
    - pendejo
    English:
    also
    - believe
    - bit
    - bonehead
    - bozo
    - damn
    - dopey
    - equally
    - foolish
    - goof
    - idiotic
    - mindless
    - obtuse
    - pretty
    - shame
    - soft
    - stupid
    - that
    - wonder
    - inane
    - jerk
    * * *
    estúpido, -a
    ♦ adj
    stupid;
    ¡qué estúpido soy! me he vuelto a olvidar what an idiot I am! I've gone and forgotten again;
    sería estúpido no reconocerlo it would be foolish not to admit it
    ♦ nm,f
    idiot;
    el estúpido de mi vecino my idiot of a neighbour
    * * *
    I adj stupid
    II m, estúpida f idiot
    * * *
    estúpido, -da adj
    : stupid
    estúpido, -da n
    idiota: idiot, fool
    * * *
    estúpido1 adj stupid [comp. stupider; superl. stupidest]
    estúpido2 n stupid person / idiot

    Spanish-English dictionary > estúpido

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