culebrón
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From culebra (“snake”) + -ón. The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culebrón m (plural culebrones)
- soap opera
- large snake
- crafty person
References edit
- ^ “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading edit
- “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014