Next batch

[muckefuck]

apilar
ayunar
azotea
azulejo
chiripa
cuadra
cundir
desnucar
en ayunas
espejuelos
estripo (perder los ~s)
galpón
gazmoño
grumete
inodoro
joroba
jorobarse
llanto
manso
mechón
nuca
pana
paño
pasmoso
(vino) peleón
pericia
pifia
piojo
quicio (sacar de ~ a alguien)
repisa
trapo
tropezar
zancada

Comments

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

azotea - roof

desnucar - I first encountered this word back in high school. I saw a Spanish version of the "You'll Flip, Charlie Brown" which was translated as "Te Vas a Desnucar" (You're gonna break your neck). The French version of this comic strip collection "Tu n'en reviendras pas, Charlie Brown."

nuca - what Charlie Brown was about to lose. To be honest, I never heard of this used. What's the difference between this and cuello?

paño - In Tagalog, this means handkerchief and for some reason the stress shifted to last syllable PLUS there's a glottal stop, so [pa'njO?] - for what it's worth, baño is pronounced more or less like in Spanish, so I had to say the word paño a few times before it was familiar to me. I know it means a regular cloth in Spanish, but according to my Tagalog dictionary that would be a "panyo de mano" which I've never heard of.

I'm not familiar with the other words, though apilar, estripo, inodoro, joroba, and tropezar look familiar.

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, whatever happened to your languages from A-Z thing? I think you stopped at Okinawan or something?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I missed two weeks in a row and no one said anything, so I figured there wasn't enough interest for me to keep going.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Oh, please. Nobody's keeping track of your schedule, but that doesn't mean we aren't appreciating the project!

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

Oh and inodoro is toilet!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Where is that used? I'd never heard of it before García Márquez!

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

Philippines, for one. But I've seen/heard it used in the past.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

The nuca is the nape of the neck whereas the cuello is the collar or the neck as a whole.

Apilar is from the noun pila. Does that jog anything?

[keyne.livejournal.com]

The nuca is the nape of the neck...

Thus the childbirth-related terms "nuchal cord" and "nuchal translucency". Interesting -- because of the 'ch', I'd always figured it was Greek rather than Latinate. But AHD says: "Middle English, spinal cord, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic nuḫā', marrow, spinal cord; see mḫḫ in Semitic roots."

[wiped.livejournal.com]

i'm embarrassed at how few of these i've been recognizing. incidentally, in venezuela, pana is slang for amigo.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Ecuador, too. But so far García Márquez has only used it with the meaning "corduroy".