calientapollas
Spanish
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of calienta (“to heat up/excite”) + pollas (“cocks”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˌljentaˈpoʝas/ [kaˌljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʝas] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kaˌljentaˈpoʎas/ [kaˌljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʎas] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kaˌljentaˈpoʃas/ [kaˌljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʃas] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kaˌljentaˈpoʒas/ [kaˌljẽn̪.t̪aˈpo.ʒas] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -oʝas (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -oʎas (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -oʃas (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -oʒas (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ca‧lien‧ta‧po‧llas
Noun
calientapollas m or f by sense (plural calientapollas)
- (Spain, vulgar) cocktease, cockteaser, prickteaser
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter VII, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 112:
- —Bah, las tías son todas iguales. Unas calientapollas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “calientapollas”, 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