chaparrón
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoetic in origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chaparrón m (plural chaparrones)
- downpour, cloudburst
- (Andalusia, Cuba, Honduras, Puerto Rico) barrage, burst (e.g., barrage of criticism)
- Synonym: aluvión
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chaparrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014