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prendrelamesure: It is the French locution "prendre la mesure" ("to become aware of the situation") that they wrote without spaces.
serboleta: I don't think it's an invention as derogatory of Serbian (or Serbian), so it must be the lunfa phrase "to be ballot" without the space. See ticket.
groomofthestool: Another trolling to eliminate spaces in a sentence, and this time in English; Although they already put a definition in the Spanish dictionary in Groom of the Stool ("mozo de retrete").
vistoynovisto: It is the phrase "seen and unseen" ("happening very quickly") without the spaces.
walkietalkie: It seems to me that it is not written that way even in English, where walkie-talkie is better used. See walkie talkie.
asteísmo: It is a figure of speech in which someone is flattered, but in terms and tones that appear to be a rebuke.
aféresis: 1º_ Loss of one or more sounds at the beginning of a word, as a linguistic resource or by the evolution of the language itself. It has Greek origin in the verb 945; 966; 945; 953; 961; 949; 953; 957; (aphairein "subtract, subtract") . 2º_ In biochemistry it is the separation and extraction of some component in a substance. It is especially used in hemotherapy.
zeugma: 1º_ It is a rhetorical figure of construction also called zeuma, ceugma or adjunction, where a verb or an adjective is omitted within terms in a sentence, because being mentioned in one is understood in the others. From Greek 950; 949; 965; 947; 956; 945; (Zeugma "union, yoke, bond"). 2º_ Zeugma is the name of a city in the province of Gaziantep (Turkey), named by the ancient Greeks since in that place there was a "bridge of barges" that linked both banks of the Euphrates River.
silepsis: Rhetorical figure where they seem not to coincide in gender or number two terms in the same sentence, but it is not made by mistake but as a literary resource of omission. From Greek 963; 965; 955; 955; 951; 968; 953; 962; ( sylleepsis "understanding connected concepts") , formed by 963; 965; 957; ( syn "with, union" ) 955; 945; 956; 946; 945; 957; 949; 953; 957; ( lambánein "to ignite" ) .
diatriba: It is a repetitive recriminating and violent speech. In its Greek origins it had a wider use since it included useful nonsense talk and rant, to waste time. Its etymology comes from 948; 953; 945; ( day "between, through" ) 964; 961; 953; 946; 969; ( triboo "rub, wear" ) . [Note: Virginia's confusion surely comes from some mistranslation associated with Latin trivialis that had a double meaning of "crossroads" and "irrelevant talk" that later related to multiple choice. See trivia, trivial.
anfibología: It is the use of double meaning in a sentence, which can be interpreted in several different ways. It can be a vice of language or also a stylistic resource. It is formed with the Greek voices 945; 956; 966; 953; ( AMFI "both" ) 946; 945; 955; 955; 949; 953; 957; ( Ballein "cast, place" ) 955; 959; 947; 953; 945; (lodge "expression, knowledge" ).
plastificador: That plasticizes, especially who does it on the floors and parquet. See plastic (malleable material), plasticize.
relimpiador: That cleans , where the prefix re- is interpreted as an intensifier or a repeater for cleaner. See reclean .
opinador: That opinions, although it is used more in an ironic tone, as one who is dedicated to opining without sufficient knowledge.
arreador: 1º_ Que arrea , vareador de cattle. See muleteer . 2º_ Whip to herd cattle.
microprocesador: Chip or integrated circuit with several simple circuits capable of combining to make binary calculations at high speed. They are the main part of a computer. The word is formed by the prefix micro- ("very small") processor ( " . . . of data, of information" ) . Its abbreviation is ' micro; P' . See uP for some additional data.
tarzen: 'Tarzen' was a Spanish-Argentine hard rock band reunited in Spain in 1985. The name is a tribute to Tarzan, a character in several Edgar Rice Burroughs novels since Tarzan of the Apes in 1814, and in attention to a certain tribal aesthetic of the band on stage. Since they did not have the rights to use the name, they changed it to Tarzen, which sounds similar in English.
moby: 'Moby' is not a brass band but the stage name of singer, songwriter, performer, disc-jockey, photographer Richard Melville Hall. It is an homage to "the white whale" Moby Dick (Herman Melville, 1851), the most famous character written by his great-great-uncle.
thompson twins: The Thompson Twins were a British new wave pop band formed in 1977. The name is a tribute to the Dupondts, two characters from the Belgian comic strip Les Aventures de Tintin et Milou ("The Adventures of Tintin", Hergé, 1930) who were rather inept and almost identical police inspectors, although they did not really appear to be brothers. In the original French they were called Dupont et Dupond, but in the English version they were renamed Thomson and Thompson, which was what inspired the band's name.
steely dan: 'Steely Dan' is a rock band with influences of black music such as blues, jazz and soul, originated in the USA during 1971. Its founding members, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker took their name from the novel The Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, 1959) where Steely Dan (with its versions I, II and III) is the name of some ("vibrators for sexual use") that worked on steam [20 years before steampunk! ??]