cuchufleta
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Seemingly from the Spanish cuchillo meaning knife, likely due to the insult being piercing as a knife is.
Noun
[edit]cuchufleta f (plural cuchufletas)
- jibe
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- el cura y Amarillo dejaron caer alguna punzante cuchufleta sobre la persona del filósofo de aldea
- the priest and Amarillo let out a piercing jibe to the person of the village philosopher
Further reading
[edit]- “cuchufleta”, 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