cocerse

cocerse

► verbo pronominal

1 (gen) to cook; (hervir) to boil; (al horno) to bake

2 familiar (de calor) to be roasting, be boiling

■ me cuezo I'm boiling

3 familiar (tramarse) to be cooking, be afoot, be going on

■ se está cociendo algo a nuestras espaldas there's something fishy (going on) behind our backs

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VPR

1) (=hervir) to boil

2) (=guisarse) to cook; [al vapor] to steam; [al horno] to bake

la carne tarda más en cocerse que el pescado — meat takes longer to cook than fish

3) * (=tramarse)

algo raro se está cociendo en el comité — something strange is brewing in the committee

voy a ver qué se cuece por aquí — I'm going to see what's going on here

4) * (=pasar calor) to bake *, roast *, boil *

en este piso se cuece uno en verano — this apartment is baking o roasting o boiling in summer *

5) ** (=emborracharse) to get plastered **, get smashed **

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■cocerse verbo reflexivo
1 (un alimento) to cook
(hervir) to boil
(hornear) to bake
2 fam (pasar mucho calor) to roast
3 (tramarse) to be going on
'cocerse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cocer
English:
cook

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vpr

1. [alimentos] [cocinar] to cook;

[hervir] to boil; [en horno] to bake;

esta pasta tarda diez minutos en cocerse this pasta cooks in ten minutes, this pasta takes ten minutes to cook

2. Fam [achicharrarse] to be boiling o roasting;

me estoy cociendo (de calor) I'm boiling o roasting

3. Fam [tramarse]

me parece que se está cociendo algo gordo I think something really big is brewing;

¿qué se cuece por aquí? what's cooking?, what's going on here?

4. Fam [emborracharse] to get plastered

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cocerse

v/r cook; en agua boil; al horno bake; fig fam

de persona be roasting fam

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cocerse vb

1. (en general) to cook

¿cuánto tarden las patatas en cocerse? how long do potatoes take to cook?

2. (tener calor) to boil / to bake

nos cocemos aquí we're boiling in here

3. to brew

se está cociendo algo gordo something serious is brewing