metepatas
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Verb-object compound, composed of mete (“to insert”) + patas (“feet, paws”). From the phrase meter la pata.
Noun edit
metepatas m or f by sense (plural metepatas)
- screw-up; buffoon
- 2016 September 22, “Texto íntegro del pregón de Javier Pérez Andújar”, in El Periódico[1]:
- El Gordito Relleno representaba al buenazo metepatas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “metepatas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014