guardafangos

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of guarda (“to protect (originally)”) +‎ fangos (“muds”).

Noun

guardafangos m (plural guardafangos)

1. fender (of car)

Further reading

• “guardafangos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014