mueca
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Proto-Romance/Vulgar Latin root *mocc-, imitative of laughter. See also Middle French moquer, Portuguese moca, English mock.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mueca f (plural muecas)
- an exaggerated facial expression
- grimace
Derived terms
[edit]- hacer una mueca (“to grimace”)
Further reading
[edit]- “mueca”, 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
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- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Spanish onomatopoeias
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eka
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