pegador
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish pegador, from pegar (“to stick”).
Noun edit
pegador (plural pegadors)
- (zoology, dated) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates).
- Synonym: live sharksucker
References edit
- “pegador”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧ga‧dor
Noun edit
pegador m (plural pegadores, feminine pegadora, feminine plural pegadoras)
- catcher (someone who catches)
- spaghetti tongs
- tag (game in which a child attempts to catch other children)
- Synonym: pega-pega
- remora (any of various elongated fish from the family Echeneidae)
- Synonym: rémora
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pegador m (plural pegadores)
- fighter
- Synonyms: luchador, combatiente
- boxer
- Synonym: boxeador
Further reading edit
- “pegador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014