comeaños
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of come (“to eat”) + años (“year”). Literally, “year-eater”.
Noun
[edit]comeaños m or f by sense (plural comeaños)
- (slang) a person who looks younger than their acutal age.
- Synonym: tragaños
- 1987, Ignacio Solares, Casas de encantamiento, Plaza y Valdés, page 75:
- —Ta bueno. Te ves joven pero has de ser comeaños, pinche güerito cachondón […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2012, Francisco Pérez de Antón, La guerra de los capinegros[1], Alfaguara:
- Esas fueron sus palabras, las cuales me parecieron impropias de su edad, aunque ya se sabe que los frailes son comeaños.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2011, Bárbara Jacobs, Lunas[2], Ediciones Era:
- –¿Usted cree que exista una relación causal entre ser comeaños y no dejar de ser niño? Es decir, ¿usted cree que los que no dejan de ser niños nunca llegan a tener aspecto de adultos?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
[edit]comeaños (invariable)
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