- rácano
- adj.1 slothful, idle.2 stingy, mean.m.1 Scrooge, mean devil.2 bum.* * *rácano► adjetivo1 familiar (tacaño) mean, stingy2 familiar (holgazán) idle, lazy* * *rácano, -a *1. ADJ1) (=tacaño) stingy *, mean2) (=vago) bone idle3) (=artero) sly, cunning2. SM / F1) (=tacaño) mean devil, scrooge *2) (=vago) slacker, idler
hacer el rácano — to slack
* * *I-na adjetivo (fam) (tacaño) stingy (colloq)II-na masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) scrooge (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)* * *I-na adjetivo (fam) (tacaño) stingy (colloq)II-na masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) scrooge (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)* * *rácano11 = 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.rácano22 = layabout.Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.
* * *rácano1 -naadjective(fam)1 (tacaño) stingy (colloq), tightfisted (colloq)2 (malhumorado) bad-temperedrácano2 -namasculine, feminine(fam)1 (tacaño) scrooge (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)2 (malhumorado) bad-tempered person ( o devil etc)* * *
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
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Spanish:
aflojar
- rácana
* * *rácano, -a Fam Pey♦ adj1. [tacaño] mean, stingy2. [holgazán] idle, lazy♦ nm,f1. [tacaño] mean o stingy devil2. [holgazán] lazybones* * *rácanoI adj famstingy fam , meanII m, rácana f tightwad fam , skinflint fam* * *rácano adj (tacaño) mean
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.