carnear
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾneˈaɾ/ [kaɾ.neˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: car‧ne‧ar
Verb
carnear (first-person singular present carneo, first-person singular preterite carneé, past participle carneado)
- (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay) to slaughter (for meat)
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Decía el pelirrojo con la boca llena de pan:
—Todos los inviernos carneamos tres chanchos para la casa. Los demás se venden.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Chile) take in; pull the wool over someone's eyes
Conjugation
Further reading
- “carnear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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