metepatas
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of mete (“to insert”) + patas (“feet, paws”). From the phrase meter la pata.
Noun
[edit]metepatas m or f by sense (plural metepatas)
- screw-up; buffoon
- 2016 September 22, “Texto íntegro del pregón de Javier Pérez Andújar”, in El Periódico[1]:
- El Gordito Relleno representaba al buenazo metepatas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “metepatas”, 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