correveidile
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Univerbation of corre + ve + y + dile, literally “run, go and tell him/her”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]correveidile m or f by sense (plural correveidiles)
- tattler, telltale
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Como no disfrutaban de medios para mantener criada y como ninguna sirvienta tampoco hubiera podido soportar los bríos faunescos de los tres golfos cabelludos y los malos humores de las quisquillosas doncellas y los caprichos de las brujas dentudas, Enrique era el correveidile necesario para el buen funcionamiento de aquella coja máquina económica, y tan acostumbrado estaba a pedir a crédito, que su descaro en ese sentido era inaudito y ejemplar.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “correveidile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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