pintamonas
Spanish
editEtymology
editVerb-object compound, composed of pinta (“to paint”) + monas (“monkeys”), from pintar la mona.
Noun
editpintamonas m or f by sense (plural pintamonas)
- (colloquial) a novice painter; a painter with poor skills
- (colloquial, derogatory) someone unimportant yet pretentious, a nobody
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “pintamonas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014