pelado

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pelado, -a
adjective
1shorn (cabeza)
2peeling (piel, cara); peeled (fruta)
3bare (habitación, monte, árbol)
4exact, round (número)
  • saqué un aprobado pelado, -a -> I passed, but only just
5broke (informal) (sin dinero), skint (British)
masculine or feminine noun
6common person (informal) (persona humilde) (CAm, Mexican Spanish), pleb (British), oik (British)

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pelado [pay-lah’-do, dah]
article & past participle
1Past participle of PELAR.
2Plucked; bared, decorticated.
3Hairless, without hair (cabeza).
4Applied to fields or mountains without shrubs or plants; bare.
5Broke (sin dinero), penniless. (Ante Meridian & Latin American) (m)
6Coarse, crude (grosero). (Mexico) (m)
7Impudent (descarado). (Ante Meridian & Central America & Caribbean) (m)
  • Estar pelad -> or ser un pelado, (coll.) to be penniless, to be nobody
  • Cobra el sueldo pelado -> he gets just the bare salary
  • El cinco mil pelado -> exactly five thousand
bald.

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peladoa pelada
adjetivo
1 (sin pelo)
lleva la cabeza pelada he has his head shaved
2 (por el sol)
tengo la espalda pelada del sol my back is peeling from being in the sun
3 [+fruta, patata] peeled; [+gamba] shelled
tomates pelados peeled tomatoes; solo han dejado los huesos pelados they left nothing but the bones
4 [+terreno] treeless; bare; [+paisaje] bare; [+tronco] bare; smooth
una montaña pelada a bare mountain
5 (escueto) bare
cobra el sueldo pelado he gets just his bare salary; he sacado un cinco pelado I just scraped a five
6 (familiar) (sin dinero) broke; (familiar) penniless
7 (México) (grosero) coarse; rude
8 (familiar) [+número] round
el cinco mil pelado a round five thousand
9 (Centroamérica) (Caribe) (descarado) impudent
sustantivo:masculino
(familiar) (corte de pelo) haircut
sustantivo:masculino
femenino
1 (anticuado) (pobre) pauper
2 (México) (familiar) (obrero) working-class person
3 (And) (Centroamérica) (familiar) (bebé) baby
A stock figure in Mexican theatre and film, the pelado is a kind of rural anti-hero cum lovable rogue who survives by his quick wits in the foreign environment of the city. The Mexican actor and comedian Mario Moreno (1911-94) based the character Cantinflas, for which he is famous all over the Spanish-speaking world, on the pelado. The pelado is closely related to the literary figure of the pícaro and forms part of a long line of anti-heroic characters in Hispanic literature.
peladoCantinflaspeladopeladopícaro
note note See culture box in entry pícaro.note note See culture box in entry carpa.

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