pajilla
Spanish
Etymology
From paja (“straw (stalk of a cereal plant)”) + -illa (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈxiʝa/ [paˈxi.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /paˈxiʎa/ [paˈxi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /paˈxiʃa/ [paˈxi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /paˈxiʒa/ [paˈxi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Costa Rica): (file)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: pa‧ji‧lla
Noun
pajilla f (plural pajillas)
- (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica) drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
- (vulgar, slang, Spain) wank, handjob, masturbation
Further reading
- “pajilla”, 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
- “pajilla”, 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
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