pingajo

Spanish

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Noun

pingajo m (plural pingajos)

rag
Synonym: harapo
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
  Los cables colgaban en pingajos de los plafones desconchados por la brusquedad del esfuerzo
  Like rags were the wires hanging from the ceilings chipped coarsely by the effort
ragged person

Further reading

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

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