carallada
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Carallo (“dick, cock”) + -ada.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carallada f (plural caralladas)
- (informal) diversion, fun
- lack of seriousness
- 2006, Malándromeda, Aquel Grupo [song]:
- Eran colegas había moito tempo atrás,
o nome do seu grupo non importa xa;
levaban anos, máis ben de carallada,- They were pals, for a long long time,
theirs group name won't really chime;
they had been playing for years, rather amateurishly,
- They were pals, for a long long time,
- Antonym: seriedade
- 2006, Malándromeda, Aquel Grupo [song]:
- (derogatory) shit, bullshit, nonsense
- 2001, Paisaxes con palabras, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 56:
- —Non. Primeiro fíxolle gracia a nota e despois preguntou que quen escribira aquela carallada. —¿Carallada? ¿Dixo que era unha carallada? —Exacto, señor. Eu respondinlle que a escribira vostede.
- —No. First he had some fun reading the note, then he asked who wrote that nonsense. —Nonsense? He said that it was a nonsense? - Exactly, sir. I told him that you wrote it.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carallada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carallada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carallada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN