- papilla
- f.1 purée.echar o arrojar hasta la primera papilla (informal) to be as sick as a doghecho papilla (informal) shattered, exhausted; (cansado) smashed to bits, ruined (roto)2 barium meal (medicine).3 pap.* * *papilla► nombre femenino1 (infantil) baby food2 (masa espesa) pap, mush\FRASEOLOGÍAechar la (primera) papilla familiar to be as sick as a dogestar hecho,-a papilla familiar (persona) to be shattered 2 (objeto) to be falling to bitshacer papilla a alguien familiar to make mincemeat of somebody* * *SF1) [de bebé] baby food2) † (=astucia) guile, deceit* * *femenino (para bebés) baby food, formula (AmE); (para enfermos) puree, pap
hacer papilla — (fam) <moto/coche> to smash up; <person> to beat ... to a pulp
estamos hechos papilla — we're absolutely shattered (colloq)
* * *= pap.Ex. This continued diet of pseudocultural pap will produce a generation of ethnocentric ignoramuses ill-prepared to deal with real-world complexities.* * *femenino (para bebés) baby food, formula (AmE); (para enfermos) puree, paphacer papilla — (fam) <moto/coche> to smash up; <person> to beat ... to a pulp
estamos hechos papilla — we're absolutely shattered (colloq)
* * *= pap.Ex: This continued diet of pseudocultural pap will produce a generation of ethnocentric ignoramuses ill-prepared to deal with real-world complexities.
* * *papillafeminine(para bebés) baby food, formula (AmE); (para enfermos) puree, papechar/devolver la (primera) papilla (fam); to throw up (colloq), to puke one's guts up (sl)hacer papilla (fam); ‹moto/coche› to smash up;‹person› to beat … to a pulpllegamos hechos papilla we were bushed o shattered when we got there (colloq)* * *
papilla sustantivo femenino (para bebés) baby food, formula (AmE);
(para enfermos) puree, pap;◊ estar hecho papilla to be absolutely shattered (‹persona›) (colloq)
papilla sustantivo femenino pap, mush
(de niños) baby food
♦ Locuciones: echar la primera papilla, to bring up one's food o to throw up violently
'papilla' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
papila
English:
mush
* * *papilla nf1. [para niños] baby foodCompFamechar o [m5]arrojar hasta la primera papilla to be as sick as a dog;CompFamhacer papilla a alguien to make mincemeat of sb;CompFamhecho papilla [cansado] Br exhausted, shattered;[roto] smashed to bits, ruined2. Med barium meal* * *papillaf para bebés baby food; para enfermos puree;hacer papilla a alguien fam beat s.o. to a pulp fam* * *papilla nf1) : pap, mash2)hacer papilla : to beat to a pulp* * *papilla n baby food
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.