jayán
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[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: ja‧yán
Adjective
[edit]jayán (feminine jayana, masculine plural jayanes, feminine plural jayanas)
- huge; beastly; giant
- (El Salvador, Nicaragua, colloquial) lewd, sexual (said of a joke or a person who tells such jokes)
- A ese le gusta contar chistes jayanes.
- That guy likes telling lewd jokes.
Noun
[edit]jayán m (plural jayanes, feminine jayana, feminine plural jayanas)
- (mythology) giant
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 19:
- Para convencerse del supersticioso temor que les inspiran, no hay sino ver cómo los más ingenuos y verbosos bajan la voz hasta hacerla apenas perceptible, siempre que tratan de estos asuntos, y cómo jayanes que podrían derribar una torre a puñetazos, miran en torno suyo con mucho inquietud, antes de responder, por miedo de que algún Brujo les esté escuchando.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- huge person; beast; stocky person
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- A hora conveniente, dos jayanes pusieron sobre la mesa del comedor un mediano monte de pan
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “jayán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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