Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

exagerado

  11

1º_ That exaggerates or tends to exaggerate; which is excessive, especially in a story, in eloquence, in adjectivation. 2º_ Participle of the verb exaggerate .

  

estampado

  7

1º_ As an adjective is what has prints, drawings or forms printed on the material. 2º_ Participle of the verb stamp .

  

creído

  16

1º_ As an adjective and noun is said of a person who believes himself superior or who stands out for his gifts or his merits. 2º_ Participle of the verb to believe.

  

empanado

  4

1º_ Participle of the verb to breading . 2º_ As an adjective it is said of the food that is battered in breadcrumbs or surrounded by breads like a sandwich. See empanada . 3º_ By the previous one, and associated in some way with sandwiching, it is a room surrounded by others, which has no windows. 4º_ Also by the second meaning, but this time in allusion to the batter, it is said of the body that has sand stuck when getting up from the beach. 5º_ In Spain it is synonymous with distracted, confused, surely of the expression "mental empanada".

  

polo flash

  10

It is a treat that is frozen and taken as a polo ("ice cream"). It is very popular in Spain and produced under several different company names. The pioneer seems to be FlagGolosina, and perhaps inspired the others to use a brand similar to "flag", such as Burmar Flax or Kelia Flash. As a curiosity, businessman Evaristo Burgueño Martín used 'Flax' as a tribute to the comic book hero Flash Gordon, but the word 'Flash', as is, was used by the Kelia company, not Burmar.

  

adiro

  5

Adiro® is a brand of aspirin from Bayer® that due to its popularity in some countries became a generic name.

  

telmex

  7

TELMEX is the trade name of the company Teléfonos de México, S. To. B . of C . V . which markets IT and telecommunications services. It has its origin in the late 1940s with the purchase of the Mexican Ericsson and ITT Corporation by a local consortium.

  

mirinda

  8

It is a commercial brand of fruit-flavored soft drink. It was launched by PepsiCo in Spain in the mid-twentieth century and then spread to other markets, although it is no longer produced in its country of origin. The name seems to be Esperanto, where it means "amazing, wonderful", which may have been inspired by Fanta ("fantasy"), or by some woman named Mirinda, since it is also a feminine name as a variation of Miranda.

  

boeing

  6

Trade name of the aerospace and armament company The Boeing Company, based in Illinois (Chicago, USA) and founded by lumber magnate William Edward Boeing in 1916 almost by chance, when his private plane broke down and he discovered that he could manufacture the spare parts himself in his workshops.

  

chanel

  10

1º_ Chanel is a trademark related to fashion, jewelry and perfumery. The name comes from its founder Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who started with a small design venue in Paris in 1901 to create an empire that went through two world wars. 2º_ Woman's name, probably inspired by the previous brand, although that surname has Latin origin.

  

hombre marlboro

  9

1º_ It is the Spanish translation of the English Marlboro man, the character of an advertising campaign created by the agency Leo Burnett Worldwide for the tobacco company Philip Morris that in 1954 produced cigarettes with Marlboro filter mainly aimed at female consumers, but that wanted to expand the target with a campaign showing a cowboy (cowboy) smoking on camera for a male identification, In addition to other characters such as marines, construction workers or athletes. This 'Marlboro man' was played by several football players as well as actors and advertising models, and some fell ill with cancer so they sued the tobacco company. 2º_ Nickname of the economist, former senator, smuggler (of cigarettes, among other products) and Colombian drug trafficker Samuel Santander Lopesierra Gutiérrez.

  

flit

  7

1º_ FLIT is a trademark of insecticide created and marketed in the 1920s by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (USA), today ExxonMobil. It was composed of DDT but in the 1950s the formula was changed when the serious effects of that compound on the environment became known. The name seems to come from the English fly-tox (for "toxic to flies"). 2º_ It is also called the "flit gun", a sprayer with a hand pump that was used to spray the poison in the air; but that in practice served for any liquid applied as an aerosol.

  

embarazo

  11

1º_ Difficulty or limitation to perform an action, which can be physical or moral. 2º_ State of pregnancy in women, period in which they develop the fetus until the moment of delivery. It is not used in animals unless it is intended to humanize them. Surely its use comes from the previous meaning. 3º_ Inflection of the verb to embarazar . See verbs/pregnancy .

  

preñez

  10

Pregnancy in mammalian females, the period in which the fetus develops until the time of delivery. In humans its synonym "pregnancy" is preferred. It also makes figurative sense for any developing situation that is expected to come to fruition.

  

alba

  16

1º_ Feminine of albo ("white color") . 2º_ Dawn, first light of day. From the Latin albus, a, um ("white, clear, bright). 3º_ Last period in a night military watch. 4º_ Alba is a woman's name, by the first or second meaning. 5º_ It is also the name of several localities in Spain (provinces of Lugo, Pontevedra and Teruel), in Italy (province of Cuneo), in Romania (region of Transylvania), in France (region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), in the USA (states of Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California and Missouri), in Cuba (province of Ciego de Avila), in Bolivia (department of Santa Cruz), in the Philippines (provinces of Aclán, Cagayan and South Surigao), in Russia (Sakhalin Oblast), in Belarus (Brest Oblast), in Indonesia (West Java province) and is still used as a Welsh name for Scotland. 6º_ Lyrical musical genre typical of the troubadours. 7º_ ALBA is the acronym of the Bolivarian Alliance for America. 8º_ It is the name of books, magazines, films, fictional characters, companies, . . .

  

amanecer

  11

1º_ "Clarear the morning", which although it is an impersonal verb can also be used as a transitive for something or someone who arrives or wakes up at sunrise. It comes from the Latin, with the verbal prefix a- mane ("in the clarity of the morning") the verbal suffix -er. 2º_ It is also used as a noun for the time of sunrise. See alba .

  

anteojo

  8

Optical instrument that is placed in front of an eye to protect it, to improve vision, to correct it, . . . In many cases it covers both eyes, but being a single object is called 'eyeglass', although it is more popular to use glasses also as singular. See prefix ante- .

  

gafa

  21

1º_ Hook, wire finished in a curved shape to hold something, which in principle was the hook to tighten the strings of the crossbows. See staple , grampa , pin . It comes from the verb gafar ("to grasp, to hold"). 2º_ For the previous meaning, "suture, closure of a wound (even when thread is used and not staples)". 3º_ Glasses, is almost always used in plural (glasses) and comes from the first meaning, for the sideburns that hold them from the ears. 4º_ Inflection of the verb gafar . See verbs/glasses . 5º_ Gafa is the name of a locality in the municipality of Puerto del Son (autonomous community of Galicia, Spain); from a locality in Porto (Portugal); from a locality in Erbil (Kurdistan Region, Iraq) and from a village in Bukidnon Province (Philippines). 6º_ Feminine of gafo ("foolish, unfortunate, poor") . 7º_ GAFA is an acronym that unites four of the main technology brands on the internet: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.

  

burladora

  10

If it is not the feminine of mocker, it may be an error by burrower ("burring machine"), or perhaps by Bullader.

  

guechos

  12

It must be an error by the plural of güecho ("goiter or who has this disease"), or of guacho ("orphan"), or by quechol (bird), . . .

  

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