arrapiezo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from arrapo, a variant of harapo (“rag”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /araˈpjeθo/ [a.raˈpje.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /araˈpjeso/ [a.raˈpje.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -eθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -eso
- Syllabification: a‧rra‧pie‧zo
Noun edit
arrapiezo m (plural arrapiezos, feminine arrapieza, feminine plural arrapiezas)
- (derogatory or humorous) ragamuffin, whippersnapper
- 1911, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Dulce sueño:
- La gente también me escudriña, ávida de acercarse, con hostil e irónica curiosidad chulesca. Todos ellos -mendigos, arrapiezos, golfería, lavanderas, obreros […]
- The people were also eying me up, keen to approach, with a hostile, ironic and cocky curiosity. All of them, beggars, ragamuffins, scoundrels, washerwomen, laborers […]
- rag
Further reading edit
- “arrapiezo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014