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1 tacana
adj.1 malicious, artful, knavish.2 stingy, sordid, close, mean.* * *f., (m. - tacaño)* * *SF1) And, Cono Sur (Agr) cultivated hillside terrace3) Cono Sur (=policía) fuzz **, police* * *
tacaño,-a
I adjetivo mean, stingy, miserly
II sustantivo masculino y femenino miser, scrooge
' tacaña' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
rata
* * *I adj fammiserly, stingy famII m, tacaña f fammiser fam, tightwad fam -
2 tacaño
adj.mean, cheap, cheapskate, close-fisted.m.miser, tightwad, Scrooge.* * *► adjetivo1 mean, stingy► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 skinflint, miser* * *(f. - tacaña)adj.* * *ADJ1) (=avaro) mean, stingy2) (=astuto) crafty* * *I- ña adjetivo stingy, meanII- ña masculino, femenino miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)* * *= cheap, stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], parsimonious, tight-fisted, miser, scrooge, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad, cheapskate.Ex. The unregistered shareware version displays a message to anyone accessing the server that the owner is too cheap to pay the shareware fee.Ex. All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/ stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.Ex. He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Ex. Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.* * *I- ña adjetivo stingy, meanII- ña masculino, femenino miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)* * *= cheap, stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], parsimonious, tight-fisted, miser, scrooge, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad, cheapskate.Ex: The unregistered shareware version displays a message to anyone accessing the server that the owner is too cheap to pay the shareware fee.
Ex: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/ stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.Ex: He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.Ex: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.Ex: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Ex: Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.* * *miserly, stingy, meanmasculine, feminine* * *
tacaño◊ -ña adjetivo
stingy, mean
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)
tacaño,-a
I adjetivo mean, stingy, miserly
II sustantivo masculino y femenino miser, scrooge
' tacaño' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cutre
- rata
- roñosa
- roñoso
- ruin
- tacaña
- agarrado
- apretado
- judío
- mezquindad
- mezquino
- mirar
- pinche
English:
cheap
- mean
- meanie
- miserly
- niggardly
- penny-pinching
- stingy
- tight
- tightfisted
* * *tacaño, -a♦ adjmean, miserly♦ nm,fmean o miserly person;ser un tacaño to be mean o miserly* * *I adj fammiserly, stingy famII m, tacaña f fammiser fam, tightwad fam* * *tacaño, -ña adjmezquino: stingy, miserlytacaño, -ña n: miser, tightwad* * *tacaño1 adj mean¡no seas tacaño! don't be mean!tacaño2 n skinflint -
3 rata
adj.stingy, mean (informal).f.1 rat.rata de agua water rat2 pickpocket, sneak thief, filcher.3 despicable person, rat.4 rate.5 Atlantic stargazer, Uranoscopus scaber.f. & m.stingy person (informal).* * *1 ZOOLOGÍA rat1 (tacaño) miser, skinflint\ser más pobre que las ratas familiar to be as poor as a church mouse* * *noun f.* * *1.SF ratrata negra — black rat, house rat
2. SMF *1) (=tacaño) miser, mean devil, stingy devil *2) (=ladrón) sneak thief* * *I II III1) (Zool) rathacerse la rata — (RPI fam) to play hooky (esp AmE colloq), to skive off (school) (BrE colloq)
ser más pobre que una rata — to be as poor as a church mouse
2) (Col) (Econ, Mat) ( tasa) rate; ( razón) ratio; ( porcentaje) percentage* * *= rat.Ex. There are two books published under the titles 'Denmark's Day of Doom' and ' Rats in the Larder'.----* rata almizclada = muskrat.* rata almizclera = muskrat.* rata del desierto = desert rat.* * *I II III1) (Zool) rathacerse la rata — (RPI fam) to play hooky (esp AmE colloq), to skive off (school) (BrE colloq)
ser más pobre que una rata — to be as poor as a church mouse
2) (Col) (Econ, Mat) ( tasa) rate; ( razón) ratio; ( porcentaje) percentage* * *= rat.Ex: There are two books published under the titles 'Denmark's Day of Doom' and ' Rats in the Larder'.
* rata almizclada = muskrat.* rata almizclera = muskrat.* rata del desierto = desert rat.* * *rata1rata2rata3A ( Zool) ratno se salvó ni una rata no-one escapedser más pobre que las ratas or que una rata to be as poor as a church mouseCompuestos:white ratsewer ratlaboratory rat* * *
rata sustantivo femenino
1 (Zool) rat;◊ hacerse la rata (RPI fam) to play hooky (esp AmE colloq), to skive off (school) (BrE colloq)
2 (Col) (Econ, Mat) ( tasa) rate;
( razón) ratio;
( porcentaje) percentage
■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (fam) ( tacaño) miser, stingy devil (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)
rata
I sustantivo femenino
1 Zool rat
2 pey (persona despreciable) swine, rat
II mf fam (persona tacaña) miser
III adjetivo familiar (tacaño, avaro) mean, stingy
' rata' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
tamaña
- tamaño
English:
poor
- pro rata
- rat
- hooky
- truant
* * *rata1 nfrat;RP Fam rata de agua water vole o rat;rata de alcantarilla [animal] brown rat;Fam [persona despreciable] swine;rata campestre black rat;rata canguro kangaroo rat;Fam rata de sacristía [persona] fanatical churchgoer♦ adjstingy, mean♦ nmfcheapskate;ser un rata to be a cheapskate* * *I f ZO rat;una rata poor as a church mouseII m/f famrat fam* * *rata nf1) : rat2) Col, Pan, Peru : rate, percentage* * *rata n1. (animal) rat2. (persona) miser
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