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) 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.

Hyphenated as

pa‧ja

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpaxa/

Etymology

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