Spanish

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Etymology

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Perhaps from an obsolete noun tipería, from tipo (smartened up, dressed up) +‎ -ería. For the lack of number agreement in spite of having adjective syntax, compare the colours café and naranja, both derived from nouns.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tipeˈɾia/ [t̪i.peˈɾi.a]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Syllabification: ti‧pe‧rí‧a

Adjective

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tipería (invariable)

  1. (El Salvador) dolled up, smartened up
    Synonym: tipo (El Salvador), arreglado, acicalado
    andar tiperíato be dolled up
    el hombre más tipería que jamás conocíthe man most obsessed with looking good I ever met
    • 2021 July 9, “Argelia Quintana, madre de Amada Libertad: «Es la primera vez que lo voy a decir»”, in El Faro[1]:
      No era la misma, ya no andaba tipería, fue agarrando conciencia, comenzó a leer otro tipo de literatura, ya estaba organizada y luego desapareció
      She wasn't the same: now she wouldn't get dolled up anymore, was more [socially] conscious, she began to read another kind of literature, she was already a member [of the communists] and then she disappeared

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