a portagayola

Spanish

recibir a portagayola

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese a porta gaiola (literally “at the cage door”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a poɾtaɡaˈʝola/ [a poɾ.t̪a.ɣ̞aˈʝo.la]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /a poɾtaɡaˈʝola/ [a poɾ.t̪a.ɣ̞aˈʝo.la]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /a poɾtaɡaˈʃola/ [a poɾ.t̪a.ɣ̞aˈʃo.la]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /a poɾtaɡaˈʒola/ [a poɾ.t̪a.ɣ̞aˈʒo.la]

• Syllabification: a por‧ta‧ga‧yo‧la

Adverb

a portagayola

1. (bullfighting or figurative) at the bullpen
   • 2021 April 9, Teodoro León Gross, “El duelo es Sánchez y Ayuso”, in El País‎^[1], retrieved 2021-04-09:

     Aunque Isabel Díaz Ayuso recibiera a portagayola a Pablo Iglesias —¡comunismo o libertad!— con la certeza de estar ante un morlaco corniveleto de embestida tentona al que podía sacarle una gran faena electoral, la realidad es que su rival en el ruedo es Sánchez.

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Further reading

• “a portagayola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• porta gayola on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es