agazapado
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɡaθaˈpado/ [a.ɣ̞a.θaˈpa.ð̞o] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /aɡasaˈpado/ [a.ɣ̞a.saˈpa.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Costa Rica): (file) - Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧ga‧za‧pa‧do
Adjective
agazapado (feminine agazapada, masculine plural agazapados, feminine plural agazapadas)
- (colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) hypocritical; two-faced
Noun
agazapado m (plural agazapados, feminine agazapada, feminine plural agazapadas)
- (colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) hypocrite
Participle
agazapado (feminine agazapada, masculine plural agazapados, feminine plural agazapadas)
- past participle of agazapar
Further reading
- “agazapado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “agazapado”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010