un senabre

Catalan

Etymology

From the puny size of a mustard seed. Compare English usages such as "without a grain of sense".

Adverb

un senabre

  1. (in negative phrases) nothing at all
    sense menjar un senabre de res ― without eating anything at all

Further reading

“senabre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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