alfeñique

m.

1 barley sugar, stick of barley sugar, sugar paste, almond paste.

2 skinny person, feeble person, thin and weak person, weed.

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alfeñique

► nombre masculino

1 (pasta) sugar paste

2 figurado (persona) weakling

3 figurado (remilgo) primness, affectation

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SM

1) (=persona débil) weakling

2) (=afectación) affectation

3) (Culin) toffee-like paste, almond-flavoured o (EEUU) -flavored sugar paste

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masculino (fam) (persona) wimp (colloq)

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= weakling, runt, nesh, weedy [weedier -comp., weediest -sup.], wimp, softy [softie].

Ex. According to Safire, when a slice a cake was put before him Putin said 'Sweets are for weaklings and children'.

Ex. Under the same regimens of treatment the number of runts produced varied from none to as much as 80 per cent of the litter.

Ex. Usually, half of us would sleep on the ground outside and the other half would go for the nesh option of sleeping in a tent or hut.

Ex. Shock as boofy blokes beat weedy intellectual in popularity contest.

Ex. I am the wimpiest wimp who ever wimped when it comes to surgery.

Ex. She has a tendency to be a softy, although she does carry the brunt of the authority in the household.

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masculino (fam) (persona) wimp (colloq)

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= weakling, runt, nesh, weedy [weedier -comp., weediest -sup.], wimp, softy [softie].

Ex: According to Safire, when a slice a cake was put before him Putin said 'Sweets are for weaklings and children'.

Ex: Under the same regimens of treatment the number of runts produced varied from none to as much as 80 per cent of the litter.

Ex: Usually, half of us would sleep on the ground outside and the other half would go for the nesh option of sleeping in a tent or hut.

Ex: Shock as boofy blokes beat weedy intellectual in popularity contest.

Ex: I am the wimpiest wimp who ever wimped when it comes to surgery.

Ex: She has a tendency to be a softy, although she does carry the brunt of the authority in the household.

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alfeñique

masculine

1 (fam) (persona) wimp (colloq), weed (BrE colloq)

2 (golosina) caramel bar

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alfeñique nm

Fam [persona] wimp

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alfeñique

m fam

wimp fam

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alfeñique nm, fam : wimp, weakling