empellón
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: em‧pe‧llón
Noun
[edit]empellón m (plural empellones)
- push, shove, jostle
- Synonym: empujón
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:
- De las calles de sombra formadas por los altos muros de los galpones, pasaba a la terrible claridad del sol, a instantes un empellón me arrojaba a un costado
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “empellón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28