zapatillazo

Spanish

Etymology

From zapatilla +‎ -azo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θapatiˈʝaθo/ [θa.pa.t̪iˈʝa.θo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θapatiˈʝaθo/ [θa.pa.t̪iˈʝa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θapatiˈʎaθo/ [θa.pa.t̪iˈʎa.θo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sapatiˈʝaso/ [sa.pa.t̪iˈʝa.so]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /sapatiˈʝaso/ [sa.pa.t̪iˈʝa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /sapatiˈʎaso/ [sa.pa.t̪iˈʎa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sapatiˈʃaso/ [sa.pa.t̪iˈʃa.so]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sapatiˈʒaso/ [sa.pa.t̪iˈʒa.so]

• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: za‧pa‧ti‧lla‧zo

Noun

zapatillazo m (plural zapatillazos)

1. whack with a shoe
2. (figurative) piece of one's mind
   • 2015 July 19, “Sinead O’Connor: a golpes con todos”, in El País‎^[1]:

     La última que se ha llevado un zapatillazo con triple efecto colateral de la irlandesa es Kim Kardashian tras su reciente portada en la versión estadounidense de la revista Rolling Stone.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “zapatillazo”, 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