machacón
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat͡ʃaˈkon/ [ma.t͡ʃaˈkõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ma‧cha‧cón
Adjective
machacón (feminine machacona, masculine plural machacones, feminine plural machaconas)
- insistent, demanding
- 2015 October 8, “Savall eleva el espíritu de Bogotá”, in El País[1]:
- En ese ten con ten de tensiones machaconas, muchos se debatían entre acudir al Festival del Despecho o al de Música Sacra, que se cerró el domingo a cargo de Jordi Savall.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- annoying, tiresome
Further reading
- “machacón”, 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