garabato

m.

1 scribble.

hacer garabatos to scribble

2 prickly shrub.

3 nag, worn-out horse.

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garabato

► nombre masculino

1 (gancho) hook

2 (dibujo) doodle; (escritura) scrawl, scribble

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SM

1) (=dibujo) doodle; (=escritura) scribble

una hoja cubierta de garabatos ininteligibles — a page full of unintelligible scribbles

echar un garabato — (=firmar) to scrawl a signature

hacer garabatos — (=dibujar) to doodle; (=escribir) to scribble

2) (=gancho) hook; (Náut) grappling iron; Caribe long forked pole

garabato de carnicero — meat hook

3) Caribe * (=flaco) beanpole *, string bean (EEUU) *

4) Cono Sur (=palabrota) swearword

echar garabatos — to swear

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masculino

1)

a) (dibujo) doodle

b) garabatos masculino plural (escritura) scrawl, scribble

2) (gancho) hook

3) (Chi) (palabrota) swearword

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= squiggle, scribbling, scrawl, doodle.

Ex. Cleo Passantino produced a long sheet of graph paper with a sawtooth squiggle traced down the center of it.

Ex. From the crude-yet-poignant scribblings of those children who witnessed the Rwandan massacres to the sweet psychedelic landscapes dashed off in fits of childhood exuberance.

Ex. He makes small pencil sketches on paper as well as larger individual works drawn in a childlike scrawl on canvas or directly onto a wall.

Ex. The exhibition focuses on the writer's most experimental artworks, including inkblots, doodles and spontaneous drawings.

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* hacer garabatos = scribble, scrawl, doodle.

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masculino

1)

a) (dibujo) doodle

b) garabatos masculino plural (escritura) scrawl, scribble

2) (gancho) hook

3) (Chi) (palabrota) swearword

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= squiggle, scribbling, scrawl, doodle.

Ex: Cleo Passantino produced a long sheet of graph paper with a sawtooth squiggle traced down the center of it.

Ex: From the crude-yet-poignant scribblings of those children who witnessed the Rwandan massacres to the sweet psychedelic landscapes dashed off in fits of childhood exuberance.

Ex: He makes small pencil sketches on paper as well as larger individual works drawn in a childlike scrawl on canvas or directly onto a wall.

Ex: The exhibition focuses on the writer's most experimental artworks, including inkblots, doodles and spontaneous drawings.

* hacer garabatos = scribble, scrawl, doodle.

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garabato

masculine

A

1 (dibujo) doodle

2 garabatos mpl (escritura) scrawl, scribble

B

1 (gancho) hook

2 garabatos mpl (arpeo) grapnel

C (Chi) (palabrota) swearword, curse (AmE)

D (Méx) (Bot) prickly shrub

E (Méx fam) (caballo flacucho) nag (colloq)

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garabato sustantivo masculino
1

a) (dibujo) doodle

b)

◊ garabatos sustantivo masculino plural (escritura) scrawl, scribble

2 (Chi) (palabrota) swearword
garabato sustantivo masculino scrawl
'garabato' also found in these entries:
English:
doodle
- squiggle
- scribble

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garabato, garrapato nm

1. [escribir] scribble;

hacer garabatos to scribble

2. [dibujo] [de bebé] scribble;

[más artístico] doodle

3. [gancho] hook

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garabato

m doodle

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garabato nm

1) : doodle

2) garabatos nmpl

: scribble, scrawl

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garabato n

1. (dibujo) doodle

2. (escritura) scribble