pelotilla

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pelotilla

feminine noun

1(informal)

also:

2= ball of grime rubbed from skin

pelotilla [pay-lo-teel’-lyah]

noun

1(dim.) A small ball. (m)

2Small bell of wax, stuck with small pieces of glass, and fastened to a cat-o’-nine-tails, with which penitent persons once lashed themselves. (m)

pelotilla (familiar)

sustantivo:femenino

1 (adulación)

hacer la pelotilla a algn to suck up to sb; (familiar)

2 [de nariz] bogey; (muy_familiar)

hacer pelotillas to pick one's nose

Paid English to Spanish translation

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clumsy, uncoordinated; slow, dim-witted