Today's WOTD is: "gallo" = cockerel/ rooster
In
Spanish, the noun "gallo"*
is
a masculine noun of Latin origin which means cockerel/
rooster.
The
Spanish word “gallo” may be used also as a describing
word/ adjective meaning tough or
macho.
*NB
The word “gallo” is used with a wide variety of meanings,
many of them slang meanings, especially throughout Latin America.
Some
commonly used expressions containing the words "gallo"
are:
- Al primer gallo (at midnight);
- Comer gallo (to be aggressive/ in a foul mood... to get out of bed on the wrong side);
- Como el gallo de Morón, cacareando y sin plumas (stripped bare of everything but still upbeat);
- Dormirsele el gallo a alguien (to let an opportunity slip);
- Engreído como gallo de cortijo (someone who is full of himself);
- En menos que canta un gallo (quick as a flash/ before you can say Jack Robinson);
- En menos de lo que canta un gallo (quick as a flash/ before you can say Jack Robinson);
- Gallo chinguero (provocative person/ a stirrer);
- Gallo de pelea (fighting cock/ gamecock);
- Gallo de roca (cock-of-the-rock);
- Gallo de riña (fighting cock/ gamecock);
- Gallo de San Pedro (john dory – fish);
- Gallo pinto (rice and beans dish);
- Gallo silvestre (capercaillie);
- Hay gallo tapado (to smell a rat);
- Mamarle gallo a alguien (to pull somebody's leg);
- Misa de gallo (midnight mass on Christmas Eve);
- No cantar bien dos gallos en un gallinero (the place is not big enough for two people);
- Ojo de gallo (foot corn);
- Otro gallo me cantara (things would be very different);
- Otro gallo cantaría (things would be very different);
- Pata de gallo (houndstooth - cloth pattern);
- Pata de gallo (crow foot);
- Pelar gallo (to make a run for it/ to kick the bucket);
- Pelea de gallos (cockfight);
- Peso gallo (bantam weight - boxing);
- Soltar un gallo (to sing a false note);
- Tener alguien mucho gallo (to be really cocky);
Some
examples of the use of the word "gallo"
are:
- Salimos al primer gallo (we left at midnight);
- Habrás comido gallo, estás insoportable (you must have got out of bed on the wrong side, you are in a foul mood);
- Los ladrones me dejaron como el gallo de Morón, cacareando y sin plumas (the thieves took everything, they left me in a sorry state but still upbeat);
- Ayer se nos durmió el gallo (yesterday, we slipped up);
- Ese tipo es engreído como gallo de cortijo (that guy is really full of himself);
- Estamos al aeropuerto en menos que canta un gallo (before you could say Jack Robinson we are in the airport/ in a flash);
- Estamos al aeropuerto en menos de lo que canta un gallo (before you could say Jack Robinson we are in the airport/ in a flash);
- Ese tipo es un gallo chinguero (that guy is a stirrer);
- Esa ave es un gallo de pelea (that bird is a fighting cock/ gamecock);
- Esa ave es un gallo de riña (that bird is a fighting cock/ gamecock);
- Esa ave es un gallo de roca (that bird is a cock-of-the-rock);
- Esa ave es un gallo silvestre (that bird is a capercaillie);
- Ese pescado es gallo d San Pedro (that fish is john dory);
- Aquí hay gallo tapado (something fishy going on here);
- Pedro no hace más que mamar gallo (Pedro does nothing but pull everyone's leg);
- Por Nochebuena se celebra la misa de gallo (there is a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve);
- No hacemos más que discutir, dos gallos no cantan bien en un gallinero (we do nothing but argue, this town ain't big enough for the two of us);
- Tengo un ojo de gallo en un dedo del pie derecho (I have a corn on the toe of my right foot );
- Si hicieras los deberes, otro gallo te cantara (if you did your homework, things would be very different);
- Si hicieras los deberes, otro gallo cantaría (if you did your homework, things would be very different);
- Ese vestido de pata de gallo te queda muy bien (that houndstooth patterned dress looks really well on you);
- Me salen patas de gallo en la cara (I have crow's feet on my face);
- No me gustan las peleas de gallos (I don't like cockfighting);
- Ese es el campeón del mundo de peso gallo (that fellow is the bantamweight world champion);
- Para sombro del público, la soprano soltó un gallo (to the audience's astonishment, the soprano missed a note);
- Ese tipo tiene mucho gallo (that guy is really cocky);
For
more on the word "gallo",
visit: Wordreference.com/es/en/ Gallo
*NB
'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “gallo”
in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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