garabato

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garabato
masculine noun
1scribble
  • hacer garabatos -> to scribble

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garabato [gah-rah-bah’-to]
noun
1Pot-hook (escritura); grapnel, creeper. (m)
  • Garabatos -> scribble
2Hook to hang meat on (gancho). (m)
3A graceful gait and deportment. (m)
4III- formed or scrawling letters or characters; pot-hooks.
5Improper gestures or movements of the hands and fingers.
-pl

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garabato
sustantivo:masculino
1 (dibujo) doodle; (escritura) scribble
una hoja cubierta de garabatos ininteligibles a page full of unintelligible scribbles; echar un garabato (firmar) to scrawl a signature; hacer garabatos (dibujar) to doodle; (escribir) to scribble
si el magnanimo funcionario se digna, te echara un garabato en varios de los impresos no conseguí entender sus garabatos está cubierta de garabatos indescifrables El ministro de Obras Públicas pasó gran parte del pleno haciendo garabatos sobre un pape
2 (gancho) hook; (Náutica) grappling iron; (Caribe) long forked pole
garabato de carnicero meat hook
3 (Caribe) (familiar) (flaco) beanpole; (familiar) string bean; (EEUU) (familiar)
4 (S. Cone) (palabrota) swearword
echar garabatos to swear

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