Španielčina | Angličtina |
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como uña y mugre adjective | thick as thieves(intimate, close-knit) |
comuna noun {f} | commune [communes](small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community) community [communities](residential or religious collective) |
comuñanga noun {m} | commie(communist (pejorative)) |
con una mano atrás y otra delante adjective {m} | down and out(in a condition of poverty or debility) |
con uñas y dientes adverb | tooth and nail(viciously) |
concuñada noun {f} | co-brother-in-law(one's spouse's brother-in-law) co-sister-in-law(one's husband's brother's wife) |
concuñado noun {m} | brother-in-law(one's husband's sister's husband) co-brother-in-law(one's spouse's brother-in-law) co-sibling-in-law(one's spouse's sibling's spouse) |
correrse una juerga verb | paint the town red(party in a rowdy, wild manner) |
cortaúñas noun | nail clipper [nail clippers](nail trimmer) |
criarse en buena cuna adjective | born with a silver spoon in one's mouth(born rich or in a wealthy family) |
cuna noun | crib [cribs](a baby’s bed with high sides) |
cuña noun | snow plow(in skiing or skating) |
cuna noun {f} | cot [cots](bed for children) cradle [cradles](oscillating bed for a baby) fold [folds](home, family) womb [wombs](figuratively: place where something is made or formed) |
cuña noun {f} | cuneus(portion of the occipital lobe) die [dice](embossed device used in stamping) doorstop [doorstops](wedge used to keep a door open) guanxi(connections; relationships; one's social or business network (China)) nexus [nexuses](connected group, see also: network) wedge [wedges](simple machine) |
cuna noun {m} | Cunanoun |
cuna proper noun {m} | Cuna(language) |
cuña de hielo noun {f} | ice wedge(vertical wedge of subterranean ice) |
cuna de Judas noun {f} | Judas cradle(device of torture) |
cuña esférica noun | spherical wedge(volume of a sphere) |
cuñada noun {f} | sister-in-law(wife's sister) |
cuñado noun {m} | brother-in-law(one's husband's brother) know-it-all [know-it-alls](someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject) |
cunaguaro noun {f} | oncilla(Leopardus tigrinus) |
cunaguaro noun {m} | margay [margays](Leopardus wiedii) ocelot [ocelots](feline carnivore) |
cuncuna noun {f} | caterpillar [caterpillars](larva of a butterfly) |
dar una lección verb | teach someone a lesson(punish (informal)) |
dar una paliza verb | whip [whipped, whipping, whips](to defeat) |