canillera

Spanish

Etymology

From canilla +‎ -era.

Noun

canillera f (plural canilleras)

1. shinpad
2. (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) tremble, shiver of the legs, especially due to fear

Further reading

• “canillero”, 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
• “canillera”, 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