Feminine

paja

Meaning

  1. (countable, feminine) straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
  2. (feminine, uncountable) straw (dried stalks considered collectively)
  3. (feminine) drinking straw
  4. (feminine, slang, vulgar) wank, jerk off, handjob, masturbation
  5. (Colombia, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, colloquial, feminine) lie, falsehood
  6. (Peru, feminine, slang) very good, great, excellent
  7. (Argentina, Chile, feminine, uncountable, vulgar) laziness, tiredness, fatigue
  8. (Chile, feminine, uncountable, vulgar) effort, a task, for example, that requires a lot of energy to complete.

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
pa‧ja
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaxa/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish paja, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

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