roñoso

adj.

dirty, filthy.

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roñoso

► adjetivo

1 (sucio) filthy, dirty

2 (sarnoso) mangy

3 familiar (tacaño) mean, stingy

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 familiar scrooge, miser

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ADJ

1) (=mugriento) dirty, filthy; [metal] rusty

2) (=tacaño) mean, stingy

3) (=inútil) useless

4) (Vet) mangy

5) And (=tramposo) tricky, slippery

6) Caribe, Méx (=rencoroso) bitter, resentful; (=hostil) hostile

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I

-sa adjetivo

1) [ESTAR]

a) (mugriento) dirty

lleva el cuello de la camisa roñoso — his shirt collar's really grubby

b) (oxidado) rusty

2) [SER] (fam) (tacaño) tight-fisted (colloq), stingy (colloq)

3) [ESTAR] (Vet) mangy

II

-sa masculino, femenino roña 5

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad, cheapskate.

Ex. All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.

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I

-sa adjetivo

1) [ESTAR]

a) (mugriento) dirty

lleva el cuello de la camisa roñoso — his shirt collar's really grubby

b) (oxidado) rusty

2) [SER] (fam) (tacaño) tight-fisted (colloq), stingy (colloq)

3) [ESTAR] (Vet) mangy

II

-sa masculino, femenino roña 5

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad, cheapskate.

Ex: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.

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roñoso¹ -sa

adjective

A [ ESTAR]

1 (mugriento) dirty

lleva el cuello de la camisa roñoso his shirt collar's really grubby o engrained with dirt

tengo el pelo roñoso my hair is filthy

los azulejos de la cocina están roñosos the kitchen tiles are covered in grime o encrusted with dirt

2 (oxidado) rusty

B [ SER] (fam) (tacaño) tightfisted (colloq), stingy (colloq)

C [ ESTAR] (Vet) mangy

roñoso² -sa

masculine, feminine

(fam)

scrooge (colloq), skinflint (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)

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roñoso

◊ -sa adjetivo

1 [ESTAR]

a) (mugriento) grubby

b) (oxidado) rusty

c) (Vet) mangy

2 [SER] (fam) (tacaño) tight-fisted (colloq), stingy (colloq)
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam) scrooge (colloq), skinflint (colloq)
roñoso,-a adjetivo
1 (muy sucio) filthy, dirty
2 (oxidado) rusty
3 fam (tacaño, avariento) stingy
'roñoso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
roñosa
English:
cheapskate

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roñoso, -a

♦ adj

1. [sucio] dirty;

la habitación estaba roñosa the room was filthy

2. Fam [tacaño] tight, stingy

3. Carib, Méx [ofendido] resentful

♦ nm,f

Fam skinflint, tightwad

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roñoso

adj grimy, grubby

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roñoso, -sa adj

1) : mangy

2) : dirty

3) fam : stingy

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roñoso adj

1. (sucio) filthy [comp. filthier; superl. filthiest]

2. (tacaño) mean