ajumado

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /axuˈmado/ [a.xuˈma.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧ju‧ma‧do

Adjective

ajumado (feminine ajumada, masculine plural ajumados, feminine plural ajumadas)

1. drunken
   • 2020 December 3, Rolando Pérez Betancourt, “Restaurada, La última cena abrirá el 42 Festival”, in Granma‎^[1]:

     Deliciosos diálogos tienen lugar en esa mesa (ustedes cantan mientras cortan caña, dice un ajumado conde, y un esclavo le responde: sí, pero nos gusta más cantar que cortar caña).

     Delicious dialogues take place at that table (you sing while you cut cane, says a drunken count, and a slave answers: yes, but we like to sing more than cut cane).

Further reading

• “ajumar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “ajumado”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010