picador

English

A picador in action.

Etymology

Spanish picador (“stinger”)

Noun

picador (plural picadors or picadores)

1. (bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.

   I saw the picador lance the bull.

   • 1889, Nellie Bly, Six Months In Mexico, page 42:

     The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.

Translations

a lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador

• Catalan: picador m
• Czech: pikador (cs) m
• French: picador (fr) m

• German: Picador m, Pikador m
• Russian: пикадо́р (ru) m (pikadór)
• Spanish: picador (es) m

Anagrams

• caproid, carpoid, crapoid, parodic

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish picador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ka.dɔʁ/

Noun

picador m (plural picadors)

1. (bullfighting) picador

Further reading

• “picador” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Spanish

Etymology

From picar +‎ -ador.

Noun

picador m (plural picadores, feminine picadora, feminine plural picadoras)

1. someone who stabs or wounds
2. someone who cuts sugar-cane
3. (bullfighting) picador