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rag and bone man

  • 1 trapero

    m.
    scrap dealer, garbage dump scavenger, junkman, scavenger.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (hombre) rag-and-bone man, US junkman; (mujer) rag-and-bone woman
    * * *
    trapero, -a
    1.
    2.
    SM / F ragman/ragwoman
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino
    1)
    a) ( ropavejero) junkman (AmE), rag and bone man (BrE)
    b) (CS fam) ( aficionado a la ropa)
    2) trapero masculino (AmL) ( para el suelo) floorcloth
    * * *
    = rag-and-bone man, ragman.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. As a teenager, he used to earn pocket change by collecting and selling recyclable newsprint with his uncle, a former old-time ' ragman'.
    ----
    * dar a Alguien una puñalada trapera = stab + Alguien + in the back.
    * puñalada trapera = stab in the back.
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino
    1)
    a) ( ropavejero) junkman (AmE), rag and bone man (BrE)
    b) (CS fam) ( aficionado a la ropa)
    2) trapero masculino (AmL) ( para el suelo) floorcloth
    * * *
    = rag-and-bone man, ragman.

    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.

    Ex: As a teenager, he used to earn pocket change by collecting and selling recyclable newsprint with his uncle, a former old-time ' ragman'.
    * dar a Alguien una puñalada trapera = stab + Alguien + in the back.
    * puñalada trapera = stab in the back.

    * * *
    trapero1 -ra
    1 ( fam) (aficionado de la ropa) crazy about clothes ( colloq)
    trapero2 -ra
    masculine, feminine
    A
    1 (ropavejero) junkman ( AmE), rag and bone man ( BrE)
    2
    (CS fam) (aficionado a la ropa): es una trapera she's crazy about clothes ( colloq), she's a real clothes horse ( colloq)
    B
    * * *

    trapero
    ◊ -ra sustantivo masculino, femenino

    1 ( ropavejero) junkman (AmE), rag and bone man (BrE)
    2
    ◊ trapero sustantivo masculino (AmL) ( para el suelo) floorcloth

    trapero,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino ragman
    ' trapero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    trapera
    English:
    rag-and-bone man
    * * *
    trapero, -a
    ♦ adj
    CSur Fam [aficionado a la ropa] clothes-mad, obsessed with clothes
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [ropavejero] Br rag-and-bone man, US junkman
    2. CSur Fam [aficionado a la ropa] clothes horse, fashion nut
    * * *
    m, trapera f junk dealer, ragman, Br
    rag-and-bone man

    Spanish-English dictionary > trapero

  • 2 ciruja

    m.
    1 junkman, rag-and-bone man.
    2 little devil.
    * * *
    SMF Cono Sur scavenger ( on rubbish dumps)
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (RPl)
    a) ( trapero) junkman (AmE), rag-and-bone man (BrE)
    b) (fam) ( pillo) little devil (colloq)
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (RPl)
    a) ( trapero) junkman (AmE), rag-and-bone man (BrE)
    b) (fam) ( pillo) little devil (colloq)
    * * *
    ( RPl)
    1 (trapero) junkman ( AmE), rag-and-bone man ( BrE)
    2 ( fam) (pillo) little devil ( colloq)
    * * *
    ciruja nmf
    Arg Fam scavenger [on rubbish tip]

    Spanish-English dictionary > ciruja

  • 3 botellero

    m.
    1 wine rack.
    2 bottle rack, wine rack, bottle basket.
    3 totter.
    * * *
    1 bottle rack, wine rack
    * * *
    * * *
    1) ( para guardar botellas) bottle rack
    2) (CS) ( trapero) ragman (AmE), rag-and-bone man (BrE)
    * * *
    1) ( para guardar botellas) bottle rack
    2) (CS) ( trapero) ragman (AmE), rag-and-bone man (BrE)
    * * *
    B (CS) (trapero) ragman ( AmE), rag-and-bone man ( BrE)
    * * *

    botellero sustantivo masculino wine rack
    ' botellero' also found in these entries:
    English:
    rack
    - wine
    * * *
    1. [accesorio] wine rack
    2. RP [persona] = person who collects bottles for resale
    * * *
    m wine rack

    Spanish-English dictionary > botellero

  • 4 gruñón

    adj.
    grumpy, cranky, grouchy, gruff.
    m.
    grouch, grumbler, grump, snarler.
    * * *
    1 grumbling, grumpy
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 grumbler, grouch
    * * *
    gruñón, -ona
    1.
    ADJ grumpy, grumbling
    2.
    SM / F grumbler
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grump (colloq), grouse (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex. It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    ----
    * vieja gruñona = grumpy old woman.
    * viejo gruñón = grumpy old man, grumpy old sod.
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grump (colloq), grouse (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.

    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * vieja gruñona = grumpy old woman.
    * viejo gruñón = grumpy old man, grumpy old sod.

    * * *
    ( fam); grumpy ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    ( fam); grump ( colloq), grouch ( colloq), misery ( BrE colloq), moaner ( BrE colloq)
    * * *

    gruñón
    ◊ - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)

    gruñón,-ona adjetivo grumpy

    ' gruñón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gruñona
    English:
    grouch
    - grouchy
    - grump
    - grumpy
    - nag
    - nagging
    * * *
    gruñón, -ona Fam
    ♦ adj
    grumpy
    ♦ nm,f
    old grump
    * * *
    I adj fam
    grumpy
    II m, gruñona f fam
    grouch fam
    * * *
    gruñón, - ñona adj, mpl gruñones fam : grumpy, crabby
    gruñón, - ñona n, mpl gruñones fam : grumpy person, nag
    * * *
    gruñón1 adj grumpy [comp. grumpier; superl. grumpiest]
    gruñón2 n moaner

    Spanish-English dictionary > gruñón

  • 5 de mal genio

    (adj.) = bad-tempered, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, shrewish, short-tempered, ill-natured
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
    * * *
    (adj.) = bad-tempered, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, shrewish, short-tempered, ill-natured

    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de mal genio

  • 6 irascible

    adj.
    1 irascible.
    2 angry, crabby, gnarled, morose.
    * * *
    1 irascible, irritable
    * * *
    ADJ irascible frm
    * * *
    adjetivo irascible
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * * *
    adjetivo irascible
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

    * * *
    irascible
    * * *

    irascible adjetivo irascible, irritable, short-tempered
    ' irascible' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    temperamental
    English:
    cantankerous
    - hot-headed
    - irascible
    - quicktempered
    - crusty
    - hot
    - quick
    - snappy
    * * *
    irascible
    * * *
    adj irascible
    * * *
    : irascible, irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irascible

  • 7 irritable

    adj.
    irritable.
    Ser colérico Be quick-tempered (different from Be angry=Estar colérico.)
    * * *
    1 irritable
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo irritable
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * * *
    adjetivo irritable
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.
    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

    * * *
    irritable
    * * *

    irritable adjetivo
    irritable
    ' irritable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    irascible
    - enojadizo
    - enojón
    English:
    cantankerous
    - impatient
    - irritable
    - prickly
    - snappy
    - inclined
    - moody
    * * *
    irritable
    * * *
    adj irritable
    * * *
    : irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irritable

  • 8 chacharero

    adj.
    1 prater, gabbler.
    2 chattering, garrulous.
    3 loose-tongued.
    m.
    1 chatterbox (parlanchín).
    2 rag-and-bone man. (Mexico)
    3 chatterer.
    4 junk dealer, secondhand dealer, junk man, junkman.
    * * *
    chacharero, -a
    1.
    2. SM / F
    1) * (=parlanchín) chatterbox
    2) Méx (=vendedor) rag-and-bone man
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino
    1) (fam) ( parlanchín) chatterbox (colloq)
    2) (Méx) ( de baratijas) junk dealer
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino
    1) (fam) ( parlanchín) chatterbox (colloq)
    2) (Méx) ( de baratijas) junk dealer
    * * *
    ( fam):
    es muy chacharera she's a real chatterbox o gasbag ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    A ( fam) (charlatán) chatterbox ( colloq), gasbag ( colloq)
    B ( Méx) (de baratijas) junk dealer
    * * *
    chacharero, -a Fam
    ♦ adj
    es muy chacharero he's a real chatterbox
    ♦ nm,f
    [charlatán] chatterbox
    * * *
    m, chacharera f chatterbox

    Spanish-English dictionary > chacharero

  • 9 cementerio de coches

    scrapyard
    * * *
    salvage o wrecker's yard (AmE), scrapyard (BrE)
    * * *
    (n.) = junkyard, scrapyard
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The gang used the vehicle numbers from written-off cars found in scrapyards in Belgium.
    * * *
    salvage o wrecker's yard (AmE), scrapyard (BrE)
    * * *
    (n.) = junkyard, scrapyard

    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.

    Ex: The gang used the vehicle numbers from written-off cars found in scrapyards in Belgium.

    * * *
    wrecker’s yard, Br
    scrapyard

    Spanish-English dictionary > cementerio de coches

  • 10 desguace

    m.
    2 scrap yard.
    3 wreaker's yard, breaker's yard.
    4 taking down, pulling down, shipbreaking, breaking-up.
    5 knacker's yard for ships.
    pres.subj.
    1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: desguazar.
    * * *
    1 (de barco) breaking up; (coche) car breaking, scrapping
    2 (lugar) breaker's yard, scrapyard
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=despiece) [de barco] breaking-up, scrapping; [de coche] scrapping
    2) (=lugar) scrapyard, breaker's yard
    * * *
    masculino ( de barco) scrapping, breaking up; (de avión, coche) scrapping
    * * *
    = junkyard, scrapyard.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The gang used the vehicle numbers from written-off cars found in scrapyards in Belgium.
    ----
    * de desguace = written-off.
    * * *
    masculino ( de barco) scrapping, breaking up; (de avión, coche) scrapping
    * * *
    = junkyard, scrapyard.

    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.

    Ex: The gang used the vehicle numbers from written-off cars found in scrapyards in Belgium.
    * de desguace = written-off.

    * * *
    1 (de un barco) scrapping, breaking up; (de un avión, coche) scrapping
    2 ( Esp) (lugar) wrecker's yard ( AmE), scrapyard ( BrE)
    mi pobre coche ya está para el desguace my poor car's ready for the breaker's yard o scrapyard
    3
    ( Ven) (destrucción): el ejército hizo desguace en las filas enemigas the army wreaked havoc on the enemy lines
    hicieron desguace con la comida ( fam); they polished off (all) the food
    * * *

    Del verbo desguazar: ( conjugate desguazar)

    desguacé es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    desguace es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    desguace    
    desguazar
    desguazar ( conjugate desguazar) verbo transitivo
    to scrap
    desguace sustantivo masculino scrapping: el coche quedó para el desguace, the car ended up in the scrapyard
    desguazar vtr (una embarcación) to break up
    Auto to scrap
    ' desguace' also found in these entries:
    English:
    scrap yard
    - scrapheap
    - scrap
    * * *
    1. [acción] [de automóviles] scrapping;
    [de buques] breaking (up);
    esa camioneta está para el desguace this van is for the scrapheap;
    2. [depósito] scrapyard
    * * *
    m MAR, AUTO scrapping;
    estar para el desguace be ready for the scrapheap

    Spanish-English dictionary > desguace

  • 11 trapería

    f.
    old-clothes shop.
    * * *
    1 secondhand clothes shop
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=trapos) rags pl ; (=ropa vieja) old clothes pl
    2) (=tienda) [de ropa] second-hand clothes shop; [de cacharros] junk shop
    * * *
    a) ( tienda) thrift store (AmE), secondhand clothes shop (BrE)
    b) ( trapos) rags (pl)
    * * *
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    * * *
    a) ( tienda) thrift store (AmE), secondhand clothes shop (BrE)
    b) ( trapos) rags (pl)
    * * *

    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.

    * * *
    1 (tienda) thrift store ( AmE), secondhand clothes shop ( BrE)
    2 (trapos) rags (pl)
    * * *

    trapería sustantivo femenino
    1 (trapos) rags
    2 (tienda de ropa usada) old-clothes shop
    * * *
    [tienda] old-clothes shop

    Spanish-English dictionary > trapería

  • 12 ropavejero

    m.
    junk dealer, totter, old-clothesman, rag-and-bone man.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 second-hand clothes dealer
    * * *
    ropavejero, -a
    SM / F second-hand-clothes dealer
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino secondhand o used clothes dealer
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino secondhand o used clothes dealer
    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    secondhand o used clothes dealer
    * * *
    ropavejero, -a nm,f
    second-hand clothes dealer
    * * *
    m, ropavejera f used clothes dealer, Br
    secondhand clothes dealer

    Spanish-English dictionary > ropavejero

  • 13 trapera

    adj.
    dealing in rags or frippery.
    f.
    feminine of TRAPERO.
    * * *

    trapero,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino ragman
    ' trapera' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    puñalada
    English:
    stab
    * * *
    m, trapera f junk dealer, ragman, Br
    rag-and-bone man

    Spanish-English dictionary > trapera

  • 14 ropavejero

    • old-clothesman
    • rag-and-bone man

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > ropavejero

  • 15 trapero

    • junkman
    • rag-and-bone man
    • ragpicker
    • scrap dealer

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > trapero

См. также в других словарях:

  • rag-and-bone-man — plural rag and bone men n BrE a man who goes around the streets buying and collecting old clothes and other things that people no longer want …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • rag-and-bone man — rag and bone men N COUNT A rag and bone man is a person who goes from street to street in a vehicle or with a horse and cart buying things such as old clothes and furniture. [BRIT] (in AM, use junkman, junk dealer) …   English dictionary

  • rag-and-bone-man — rag and boneˈ man noun A person who collects or deals in goods of little value, eg old clothes, furniture, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑rag …   Useful english dictionary

  • rag-and-bone man — ► NOUN Brit. ▪ a person who goes from door to door, collecting old clothes and other second hand items for resale …   English terms dictionary

  • Rag and bone man — For the White Stripes song, see Rag and Bone. Rag and bone man is a British phrase for a junk dealer. Historically the phrase referred to an individual who would travel the streets of a city with a horsedrawn cart, and would collect old rags,… …   Wikipedia

  • rag-and-bone man — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ noun chiefly Britain : a usually itinerant dealer in things of small value (as secondhand clothes and old newspapers) : old clothesman * * * /rag euhn bohn /, Brit. a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • rag-and-bone man — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms rag and bone man : singular rag and bone man plural rag and bone men British someone who collects old clothes and other things from people s homes in order to sell them …   English dictionary

  • rag-and-bone man — /ræg ən ˈboʊn mæn/ (say rag uhn bohn man) noun a man who deals in discarded clothing, furniture, household articles, etc. Also, rag and bone merchant …  

  • rag-and-bone man — /rag euhn bohn /, Brit. a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman. [1850 55] * * * …   Universalium

  • rag-and-bone-man — noun (C) BrE a man who goes around the streets buying and collecting old clothes and other things that people no longer want …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • rag and bone man — noun a man who deals in scrap metal and recycled junk …   Wiktionary

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