culebrón
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom culebra (“snake”) + -ón + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] + [Term?] (augmentative suffix). The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editculebrón 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