montonera
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]montonera f (plural montoneras)
- (colloquial) shedload, bucketload, hell of a lot
- 2015 November 7, “El trabajo de engañar al ojo”, in El País[1]:
- En uno, que es una combinación de dos planos, unos esqueletos van corriendo y saltan por un precipicio y hay una cascada de muertos que van cayendo y se forma una montonera de zombis en el suelo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (history) an armed civilian in a paramilitary group, who organized in the 19th century during the Argentine Civil War
Noun
[edit]montonera f (plural montoneras)
- female equivalent of montonero
Further reading
[edit]- “montonera”, 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