rácano

adj.

1 slothful, idle.

2 stingy, mean.

m.

1 Scrooge, mean devil.

2 bum.

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rácano

► adjetivo

1 familiar (tacaño) mean, stingy

2 familiar (holgazán) idle, lazy

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rácano, -a *

1. ADJ

1) (=tacaño) stingy *, mean

2) (=vago) bone idle

3) (=artero) sly, cunning

2. SM / F

1) (=tacaño) mean devil, scrooge *

2) (=vago) slacker, idler

hacer el rácano — to slack

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I

-na adjetivo (fam) (tacaño) stingy (colloq)

II

-na masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) scrooge (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)

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I

-na adjetivo (fam) (tacaño) stingy (colloq)

II

-na masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) scrooge (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)

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rácano¹

¹ = stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, scrooge, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad.

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

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.

rácano²

² = layabout.

Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.

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rácano¹ -na

adjective

(fam)

1 (tacaño) stingy (colloq), tightfisted (colloq)

2 (malhumorado) bad-tempered

rácano² -na

masculine, feminine

(fam)

1 (tacaño) scrooge (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)

2 (malhumorado) bad-tempered person ( o devil etc)

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rácano,-a
I adj fam pey
1 (con el dinero) stingy, mean
2 (con el trabajo) lazy
II sustantivo masculino y femenino
1 (con el dinero) scrooge, miser
2 (con el trabajo) layabout, slacker
'rácano' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
aflojar
- rácana

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rácano, -a Fam Pey

♦ adj

1. [tacaño] mean, stingy

2. [holgazán] idle, lazy

♦ nm,f

1. [tacaño] mean o stingy devil

2. [holgazán] lazybones

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rácano

I adj fam

stingy fam , mean

II m, rácana f tightwad fam , skinflint fam

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rácano adj (tacaño) mean