falabarato
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From falar (“to speak”) + barato ("cheap", compare English barter).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]falabarato m (plural falabaratos)
- (colloquial, derogatory) windbag, big mouth, bigmouth, chatterbox (someone who talks too much)
- (humorous) glib (having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow)
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “falabarato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “falabarato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “falabarato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN