pereque
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pereque m (uncountable)
- (Latin America) bore, bother, nuisance
- 1964, Richard Renner (Editor), Comparative Education (in English), page 113:
- “No es ningún pereque traerle lo que me encargó de San Andrés. […] ”
- It is no bother to bring you what you want from San Andrés. […]
- 2017, Paco Pomares, Razones para matar a un frutero, →ISBN:
- “Joder, ¡mi cuñado es un pereque!, exclamó Miguel Alejandro, el criollo padre, marido de María Fernanda. […] ”
- Damn! "My brother-in-law is such a nuisance", exclaimed Miguel Alejandro, the Latin American father[/priest?] and María Fernanda's husband. […]
- (Latin America) commotion, scandal
- 1967, Enrique Peña Hernández, Columna lexicográfica, volume 1, page 101:
- “ARMAR UN PEREQUE , que en sentido figurado quiere decir "Armar un escándalo o alboroto por causa de algo" […] ”
- ARMAR UN PEREQUE, which in a figurative sense means "to create a scandal or commotion because of something" […]
Descendants[edit]
- → Jamaican Creole: prekeh
Further reading[edit]
- “pereque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014