calientapollas
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Verb-object compound, composed of calienta (“to heat up/excite”) + pollas (“cocks”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaljentaˈpoʝas/ [ka.ljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʝas]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaljentaˈpoʎas/ [ka.ljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʎas]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaljentaˈpoʃas/ [ka.ljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʃas]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaljentaˈpoʒas/ [ka.ljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʒas]
- Syllabification: ca‧lien‧ta‧po‧llas
Noun edit
calientapollas m or f by sense (plural calientapollas)
- (Spain, vulgar) cocktease, cockteaser, prickteaser
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter VII, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 112:
- —Bah, las tías son todas iguales. Unas calientapollas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading edit
- “calientapollas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014