morrillo
Spanish
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- Syllabification: mo‧rri‧llo
Noun
editmorrillo m (plural morrillos)
- back of the neck
- the fleshy back part of the neck of cattle or tuna
- 1872, José María de Pereda, Los hombres de pro:
- Juana la sintió en su alma, como un toro siente en el morrillo el primer par de banderillas
- Juana felt it in her soul, like a bull feels the banderilla in the back of its neck
Further reading
edit- “morrillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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