tunante
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tuna (“college singing group”) + -ante.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tunante m or f (masculine and feminine plural tunantes)
- loafing
- Synonym: gandul
- tricky, deceptive; villainous
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Ya no harán más picardías estos tunantes bichos que nada respetan.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
[edit]tunante m or f by sense (plural tunantes)
Further reading
[edit]- “tunante”, 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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