bulín
See also: bulin
Galician
Verb
bulín
- first-person singular preterite indicative of bulir
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buˈlin/ [buˈlĩn]
- Rhymes: -in
- Syllabification: bu‧lín
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Lunfardo [Term?], originally from French boulin (“alcove in a dovecote where doves nest”).
Noun
bulín m (plural bulines) (colloquial)
- (Bolivia, Rioplatense) bachelor pad
- (Bolivia, Peru) brother
- (Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina) love hotel room
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Lentamente giró la puerta en sus goznes. Lucio penetró a la habitación e hizo girar la llave del conmutador.
—Pasen, che, les presento mi bulín.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Lentamente giró la puerta en sus goznes. Lucio penetró a la habitación e hizo girar la llave del conmutador.
—Pasen, che, les presento mi bulín.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
Noun
bulín m (plural bulines)
Further reading
- “bulín”, 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