buscaniguas
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of busca (“to search for”) + niguas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]buscaniguas m (plural buscaniguas)
- (colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia) firecracker set off to move horizontally close to the ground
- Synonym: buscapiés
Further reading
[edit]- “buscaniguas”, 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
- “buscaniguas” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
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- Rhymes:Spanish/iɡwas
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