culebrón

Spanish

Etymology

From culebra (“snake”) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix). The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running and the large number of turns in the plot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuleˈbɾon/ [ku.leˈβ̞ɾõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: cu‧le‧brón

Noun

culebrón m (plural culebrones)

1. soap opera
2. large snake
3. crafty person

Further reading

• “culebrón”, 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