pegador
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish pegador, from pegar (“to stick”).
Noun[edit]
pegador (plural pegadors)
- (zoology, dated) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates).
- Synonym: live sharksucker
References[edit]
- “pegador”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: pe‧ga‧dor
Noun[edit]
pegador m (plural pegadores, feminine pegadora, feminine plural pegadoras)
- catcher (someone who catches)
- spaghetti tongs
- tag (game in which a child attempts to catch other children)
- Synonym: pega-pega
- remora (any of various elongated fish from the family Echeneidae)
- Synonym: rémora
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pegador m (plural pegadores)
- fighter
- Synonyms: luchador, combatiente
- boxer
- Synonym: boxeador
Further reading[edit]
- “pegador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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