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[edit]Etymology
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Borrowed from Spanish balconing, itself a pseudo-anglicism from Spanish balcón (“balcony”, noun) + -ing (suffix).
This pseudo-anglicism was coined in Spain as a result of many drunk British tourists dying or seriously injuring themselves by attempting this stunt, thus featuring in many media headlines. See the Wikipedia article for more information.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbælkənɪŋ/, (or emulating Spanish) /bælˈkoʊnɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: bal‧con‧ing
Noun
[edit]balconing (uncountable)
- The act of jumping between the balconies of two hotel rooms; especially of tourists in Spain.
- 2015 June 5, Hugh Morris, “Magaluf to fine tourists who get naked in the street: The Spanish resort is clamping down on anti-social behaviour to clean up its image”, in The Daily Telegraph[1], archived from the original on 23 June 2015:
- Drunken revellers planning to over-indulge in Magaluf this summer face fines of up to €3,000 for urinating, being naked in the street or “balconing”, the craze of jumping from hotel balconies. New rules which come into force next week are part of a clampdown on the type of behaviour that has led to the Spanish resort being associated with debauchery tourism.
- The act of jumping from a balcony towards a swimming pool.
- 2013 September 2, “Man dies ‘balconing’ at Majorca hotel”, in Sky News[2], archived from the original on 4 November 2014:
- A man in his 20s has died in a fall from his hotel room balcony in the resort of Magaluf, Majorca. The young man fell through the cracks of a balcony in the early hours of Monday while allegedly practising what is known as “balconing” – which involves jumping from balcony to balcony, or into a pool from a balcony.
- 2020 January 17, Stephen Burgen, “Balearic islands pass bill targeting boozy Brits abroad”, in The Guardian[3]:
- The legislation also seeks to outlaw “balconing”, the practice of jumping into a swimming pool from a hotel balcony that kills several people each year. In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so.
Translations
[edit]jumping between the balconies of two hotel rooms
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jumping from a balcony towards a swimming pool
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Further reading
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]balconing m (uncountable)
- balconing
- Synonym: balconismo
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]balconing m (uncountable)
- (Spain) balconing [from 2010]
- Synonym: balconismo
- 2011 August 21, Lucía Bohórquez, “El 'balconing' vuelve a matar en Baleares”, in El País[4], Madrid, →ISSN:
- A pesar de las advertencias de las autoridades y los hoteleros, el balconing ha vuelto a las islas. Los turistas, borrachos tras una juerga, tratan de saltar desde el balcón de la habitación del hotel hasta la piscina, en ocasiones jaleados por amigos y compañeros que tratan de inmortalizar el recuerdo del salto en un vídeo que después cuelgan en redes sociales.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2016 August 3, Carlos Garfella, “El ‘balconing’ y otros excesos del turismo masivo en España”, in El País[5], Madrid, →ISSN:
- Turistas entrando desnudos a comprar en supermercados, muertos por ‘balconing’, o fiestas de alto contenido sexual como la del “mamading” en Magaluf (Mallorca) son algunos de los efectos del turismo de borrachera y “low cost” que durante los últimos años han proliferado en las comunidades más turísticas de España.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: balconing
Further reading
[edit]- “balconing”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
balconing on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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