cascanueces
See also: Cascanueces
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Verb-object compound, composed of casca (“to crack”) + nueces (“nuts”).
Noun edit
cascanueces m (plural cascanueces)
- nutcracker
- nutcracker (bird)
- (colloquial) madcap, harebrained young man
Further reading edit
- “cascanueces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014