pelado
Meaning
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- peeled, skinned, shelled (having the outer layer e.g. peel, skin, husk etc. removed)
- treeless, bare (with no or little vegetation)
- hairless
- bald
- child, young, childish
- (figuratively) broke, penniless (without money)
- (figuratively) uncultivated, uncivilized
- (Mexico,broadly) obscene, filthy
- (Chile) naked, nude
- (Chile) promiscuous
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pe‧la‧do
Pronounced as (IPA)
/peˈlado/
Etymology
From the past participle of pelar.
New
pelar
- to peel (fruits, vegetables)
- to skin (an animal)
- to shell (nuts, shellfish)
- to unwrap
- to pluck (a bird)
- to cut the hair of
- (transitive) to spread negative gossip, run down, criticise somebody
- to exfoliate
- (colloquial) to steal
- (colloquial) to fleece
- (Mexico,colloquial,especially,transitive) to notice someone, to pay attention to someone
- (reflexive,transitive,vulgar) to matter
- (reflexive) to have one's hair cut
- (reflexive) to lose one's hair, to go bald
- (reflexive) to peel (of skin, from the sun, etc.)
- (reflexive) to fray (rope, wire)
- to strip (to remove the insulation from a wire/cable)
- (reflexive) (Chile) to steal
- (reflexive) (Chile) to flirt
- (reflexive) (Chile) to make out with a stranger at a social event
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