pingajo
Spanish edit
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Noun edit
pingajo m (plural pingajos)
- rag
- Synonym: harapo
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Los cables colgaban en pingajos de los plafones desconchados por la brusquedad del esfuerzo
- Like rags were the wires hanging from the ceilings chipped coarsely by the effort
- ragged person
Further reading edit
- “pingajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014