culebrón
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From culebra (“snake”) + -ón (augmentative suffix). The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]culebrón m (plural culebrones)
- soap opera
- large snake
- crafty person
References
[edit]- ^ “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
[edit]- “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014