hacer novillos
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]hacer novillos (first-person singular present hago novillos, first-person singular preterite hice novillos, past participle hecho novillos)
- (idiomatic) to play truant, to skip school, to play hooky, to skive
Further reading
[edit]- “hacer novillos alguien, especialmente un escolar”, 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