albur

m.

1 bleak (fish).

2 chance.

3 pun (juego de palabras). (Mexican Spanish, Dominican Spanish)

4 hazard, fortune, luck, chance.

5 double meaning, play on words, double entendre.

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albur

► nombre masculino

1 chance

■ los albures de la vida the ups and downs of life

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SM

1) Esp (=pez) bleak

2) (=riesgo) chance, risk

3) Méx (=juego de palabras) pun

4) Caribe (=mentira) lie

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masculino

1) (liter) (azar) chance; (riesgo) risk

2) (Méx) (doble sentido) double meaning; (juego de palabras) play on words, pun

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masculino

1) (liter) (azar) chance; (riesgo) risk

2) (Méx) (doble sentido) double meaning; (juego de palabras) play on words, pun

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albur

masculine

A (liter)

(azar, riesgo): dejar algo al albur to leave sth to chance

corren el albur de perderlo they run the risk of losing it

B (pez) bleak, dace

C (Méx) (doble sentido) double meaning, double entendre; (juego de palabras) play on words, pun

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albur nm

1. [pez] bleak

2. [azar] chance;

dejar algo al albur to leave sth to chance

3. Méx, RDom [juego de palabras] pun;

[doble sentido] double meaning

4. PRico [mentira] lie

ALBURES

Albures are a distinctive form of punning which originated in the speech of the (male) lower-classes of Mexico City, but are now in much wider use. They are used in rapid-fire repartee, chiefly of a sexual nature, which can be stretched into extensive exchanges as each participant tries to top the last speaker's remark. They typically involve use of numerous synonyms for the sexual organs, and one frequent theme of albures is the attempt to insinuate that one's adversary is the passive partner in a homosexual act. Many of the puns have passed into everyday speech, and can cause unintended hilarity. For example, the apparently innocent word “setecientas” (seven hundred) can be understood to mean “you sit on it”. Non-native speakers, no matter how fluent their Spanish, are unlikely to make much sense of an exchange of albures, let alone be able to participate. Indeed, they can be largely incomprehensible even to many Mexicans.

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albur

m

1 fate, chance

2 ZO dace

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albur nm

1) : chance, risk

2) Mex : pun