canallesco
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kanaˈʝesko/ [ka.naˈʝes.ko]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /kanaˈʎesko/ [ka.naˈʎes.ko]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kanaˈʃesko/ [ka.naˈʃes.ko]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kanaˈʒesko/ [ka.naˈʒes.ko]
- Rhymes: -esko
- Syllabification: ca‧na‧lles‧co
Adjective
[edit]canallesco (feminine canallesca, masculine plural canallescos, feminine plural canallescas)
- low, despicable
- 2015 October 31, “La canallesca”, in El País[1]:
- Pero ahora vivimos meses de bonanza y el triunfo no tiene más padrino que el club, comprensivo con los aduladores e inflexible con los críticos, que cada vez son más canallas y canallescos, como diría Manolo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “canallesco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16