- garabato
- m.1 scribble.hacer garabatos to scribble2 prickly shrub.3 nag, worn-out horse.* * *garabato► nombre masculino1 (gancho) hook2 (dibujo) doodle; (escritura) scrawl, scribble* * *SM1) (=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 polegarabato de carnicero — meat hook
3) Caribe * (=flaco) beanpole *, string bean (EEUU) *4) Cono Sur (=palabrota) swearwordechar garabatos — to swear
* * *masculino1)a) (dibujo) doodleb) garabatos masculino plural (escritura) scrawl, scribble2) (gancho) hook3) (Chi) (palabrota) swearword* * *= 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.* * *masculino1)a) (dibujo) doodleb) garabatos masculino plural (escritura) scrawl, scribble2) (gancho) hook3) (Chi) (palabrota) swearword* * *= 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.* * *garabatomasculineA1 (dibujo) doodle2 garabatos mpl (escritura) scrawl, scribbleB1 (gancho) hook2 garabatos mpl (arpeo) grapnelC (Chi) (palabrota) swearword, curse (AmE)D (Méx) (Bot) prickly shrubE (Méx fam) (caballo flacucho) nag (colloq)* * *
garabato sustantivo masculino
1a) (dibujo) doodleb)◊ 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
* * *garabato, garrapato nm1. [escribir] scribble;hacer garabatos to scribble2. [dibujo] [de bebé] scribble;[más artístico] doodle3. [gancho] hook* * *garabatom doodle* * *garabato nm1) : doodle2) garabatos nmpl: scribble, scrawl* * *garabato n1. (dibujo) doodle2. (escritura) scribble
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.