cohete
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Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- cuete (Hispanic America)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Catalan coet, ultimately from Latin cauda (“tail”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cohete m (plural cohetes)
- firecracker
- Synonym: petardo
- rocket
- 2023 September 3, Carlos Marcos, quoting Bertha M. Yebra, “Memorias de una diosa del rock en España: “Toda mi vida ha sido como ir en un cohete””, in El País[1]:
- Todo fue casual e improvisado. Yo nunca tuve ningún plan ni provoqué nada. Toda mi vida ha sido como ir en un cohete”, resume.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Mexico, Uruguay) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
- (San Antonio) pistol [1]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Gillespie-Duelos, Eduardo. (1975) A Glossary of San Antonio Jargon. American Speech, vol. 50, no. 1/2, 140–142.
Further reading[edit]
- “cohete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Drinking
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