hortera

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hortera
adjective
1tacky (informal) (decoración, ropa, canción) (peninsular Spanish), naff (British)
  • es muy hortera -> he has really tacky o naff taste (British)
masculine or feminine noun
also:
  • ser un hortera -> to have tacky o naff taste (British)

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hortera [or-tay’-rah]
noun
1A wooden bowl. (f)
noun
2Shop assistant, grocer's boy. (m)
3Rough type (inculto), coarse person, fraud (fingido). (Figurative) (m)
adjective
4Common (ordinario), vulgar; crude, tasteless; flashy (ostentoso).

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hortera (familiar) (España)
adjetivo:invariable
1 (de mal gusto) [+decoración] tacky; (familiar) tasteless; vulgar; [+persona] lacking in taste; [+gustos] terrible; crude
2 (anticuado) (fingido) fraud; sham
sustantivo:masculino_y_femenino
es un hortera his taste stinks; (familiar) he has lousy taste; (familiar)
hortera (anticuado)
sustantivo:femenino
wooden bowl
hortera (anticuado)
sustantivo:masculino
shop-assistant; grocer's boy

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