Feminine
paja
Meaning
- (countable, feminine) straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
- (feminine, uncountable) straw (dried stalks considered collectively)
- (feminine) drinking straw
- (feminine, slang) wank, jerk off, handjob, masturbation
- (Colombia, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, colloquial, feminine) lie, falsehood
- (Peru, feminine, slang) very good, great, excellent
- (Argentina, Chile, feminine, uncountable, vulgar) laziness, tiredness, fatigue
- (Chile, feminine, uncountable, vulgar) effort, a task, for example, that requires a lot of energy to complete.
Concepts
Synonyms
paja de la puna
paja brava
sipper
paja bebiendo
leña menuda
icho
paja de las punas
paja común
paja silvestre
sorvete
echarse una mano
masturbarse una vez
chicuca
lo que no tiene sustancia
hablar trivialidades
gamelote
masturbacion
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pa‧ja
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaxa/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish paja, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).
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