empellón

Spanish

Etymology

From empeller +‎ -ón.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /empeˈʝon/ [ẽm.peˈʝõn]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /empeˈʎon/ [ẽm.peˈʎõn]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /empeˈʃon/ [ẽm.peˈʃõn]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /empeˈʒon/ [ẽm.peˈʒõn]

Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: em‧pe‧llón

Noun

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
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Derived terms

a empellones

Further reading

“empellón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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