a tutiplén
Spanish
Etymology
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Adverb
- (idiomatic) in abundance
- Synonyms: a cascoporro, a cholón, a porrillo, para aburrir, a esgaya
- 1885, Emilia Pardo Bazán, El cisne de Vilamorta, chapter 6:
- […] y le puse dos docenas de sanguijuelas que sangraron a tutiplén […]
- […] and I put two dozen leeches on her that bled galore […]
Further reading
- “a tutiplén”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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