pufento
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pufo (“scam, fraud”) + -ento.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pufento (feminine pufenta, masculine plural pufentos, feminine plural pufentas)
- having unpaid debts or dirty business; living as a fraudster; scammy
- Non fagas negocios con él que é un pufento ― Don't do any business with him: he's a fraud
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pufento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pufento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pufento”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN