calderilla
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaldeˈɾiʝa/ [kal̪.d̪eˈɾi.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kaldeˈɾiʎa/ [kal̪.d̪eˈɾi.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaldeˈɾiʃa/ [kal̪.d̪eˈɾi.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaldeˈɾiʒa/ [kal̪.d̪eˈɾi.ʒa]
- Syllabification: cal‧de‧ri‧lla
Noun
editcalderilla f (plural calderillas)
- small change (coins of little value)
- Synonym: sencillo
- 1893, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Guapeza valenciana:
- hacía sus ensayos de guapeza yendo a pedir alguna peseta en los billares o timbas de calderilla.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015 July 31, “Metamorfosis”, in El País[1]:
- En los establecimientos donde pago con billetes, recibo la vuelta con aprensión, como si la calderilla pudiera producirme un eccema.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (US) peanuts, (UK) shrapnel (A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary))
- Synonym: chatarra
- 2018, Mercedes Sánchiz Baell, Insomnios de Alcantarilla y Otros Cuentos Bárbaros:
- Si no fuera por mí estaría en la puta calle, arrastrándose por las esquinas, chupándosela a viejos chochos por calderilla
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
edit- “calderilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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