rosca

∗

rosca

feminine noun

1 thread (de tornillo)

2 ring (forma) (de anillo) ; coil (espiral)

3= ring-shaped bread roll; sponge cake (cooking) (Mexican Spanish)

4 (expresiones)

rosca [ros’-cah]

noun

1 Screw, a mechanical power. (f)

2 Anything round and spiral; spiral motion. (f)

3 A distinctive badge of the scholars in some colleges in Spain. (f)

4 (Cono Sur) Pad (para llevar carga). (f)

5 (Cono Sur) Card players (naipes). (f)

6 (Cono Sur) Noisy argument (discusión). (f)

rosca

sustantivo:femenino

1 [de humo] ring; spiral

estaba hecho una rosca he was all curled up in a ball

2 (Culin) ring-shaped roll; ring-shaped pastry; doughnut

hacer la rosca a algn (familiar) to suck kiss up to sb;o (EEUU) (familiar)

no comerse una rosca (familiar) (no ligar) to get absolutely nowhere

note note See culture box in entry rey.

3 [de tornillo] thread; [de espiral] turn

pasarse de rosca [+tornillo] to have a crossed thread; [+persona] to go too far; overdo it

4 (Anatomía) (hinchazón) swelling; [de grasa] roll of fat;

5 (And) (Política) ruling clique; oligarchy

6 (S. Cone) (para llevar carga) pad

7 (S. Cone) (Naipes) circle of card players

8 (S. Cone) (discusión) noisy argument; (jaleo) uproar; commotion

se armó una rosca there was uproar

Paid English to Spanish translation

Word of the Day: la carcajada

∗

hearty laughter, raucous laughter, guffaw