metepatas

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of mete (“to insert”) +‎ patas (“feet, paws”). From the phrase meter la pata.

Noun

metepatas m or f by sense (plural metepatas)

1. 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)

Related terms

• metedura de pata

 

Further reading

• “metepatas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28