copla

copla
feminine noun
1. folksong, popular song (canción)
  • ya está otra vez con la misma copla (figurative) -> he's back on his hobbyhorse
2. verse, stanza (estrofa)

copla [co’-plah]
noun
1. A certain number of consonant verses, a couplet; a stanza of four lines, of eight or eleven syllables, the second and fourth lines rhyming; by extension, short rhymes. (f)
2. A sarcastic hint or remark, a lampoon. (f)
3. Ballad. (Province; Provinicial) (f)
  • Echar coplas de repente -> to talk nonsense
  • Andar en coplas -> to be on everyone’s lips
  • Echar coplas a uno -> to speak ill of someone

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