pejiguera
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin persicaria (“Persicaria maculosa”) from Latin persicus (“Persian”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pejiguera f (plural pejigueras)
- lady's thumb
- nuisance
- 2016 May, “Tahúres”, in El Nacional[1]:
- La pejiguera que en estos territorios había era de tal magnitud que el 23 de mayo de 1608 una Cédula Real de Felipe III consideraba que las multas que se aplicaban a las gentes de Indias no bastaban para impedir el juego.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
[edit]pejiguera f
Further reading
[edit]- “pejiguera”, 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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