pringado
Spanish
Alternative forms
- pringao (eye dialect; adjective and noun)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾinˈɡado/ [pɾĩŋˈɡa.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: prin‧ga‧do
Noun
pringado m (plural pringados, feminine pringada, feminine plural pringadas)
- (Spain, colloquial) loser, sucker, doormat (a person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person; a person who has the worst jobs at work)
- (Spain, colloquial) poor thing, poor thing wretch, victim (an unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
- (Spain, colloquial) fool, idiot
- ¡No seas (un) pringado!
- Don’t be an idiot!
Participle
pringado (feminine pringada, masculine plural pringados, feminine plural pringadas)
- past participle of pringar
Further reading
- “pringado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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