resoplido
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[edit]Noun
[edit]resoplido m (plural resoplidos)
- puff, pant (short inhalation and exhalation, when out of breath or angry)
- 2015 July 10, “El libro que alumbró ‘Matar a un ruiseñor’: el regreso de Harper Lee”, in El País[1]:
- Puede que la historia como tal guste más o menos, pero los resoplidos del tren que se acerca anuncian que es una gran novela.
- You might find the story just so-so, but the puffing of the approaching train announces that it is a great novel.
Further reading
[edit]- “resoplido”, 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