tragaleguas
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Verb-object compound, composed of traga (“to swallow”) + leguas (“leagues (measurement equal to several miles)”).
Noun edit
tragaleguas m or f by sense (plural tragaleguas)
- (colloquial) keen walker, or fast walker
Further reading edit
- “tragaleguas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014