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tripa

tripa
feminine noun
1. stomach (vientre)
  • me duele la tripa -> I've got a stomachache
  • echar las tripas (informal) -> to throw up, to puke
  • hacer de tripas corazón (informal) -> to pluck up one's courage
  • ¿qué tripa se te ha roto? (informal) -> what's up with you, then?, what's bugging you?
  • revolverle las tripas a alguien (informal) -> to turn somebody's stomach
2. gut, belly (informal) (barriga) (peninsular Spanish)
  • está echando tripa -> he's getting a pot belly o a bit of a gut
3. (informal)
  • tripas -> insides (interior)
  • quiero ver las tripas de la máquina -> I want to see the workings of the machine

tripa [tree’-pah]
noun
1. Gut, intestine, bowel. (f)
  • Tripas para longanizas -> hogs’ casings for sausages
2. Belly (vientre), especially of the pregnant woman. (f)
3. Belly or wide part of vessels (vasijas). (f)
noun, plural
4. Core, the inner part of fruit (fruta).
5. The interior of something.
  • Hacer de tripas corazón -> to hide one’s dissatisfaction or disappointment; also to pluck up heart

tripa
tripas
UNKNOWN
1 (intestino) intestine; gut; (vísceras) guts (familiar); insides (familiar); innards (familiar)
me duele la tripa I have a stomach ache; quitar las tripas a un pez to gut a fish; le gruñían las tripas his tummy was rumbling (familiar)
hacer de tripas corazón to pluck up courage
echar las tripas (vomitar) to retch; vomit violently
tener malas tripas to be cruel
revolver las tripas algn to turn sb's stomach
¡te sacaré las tripas! I'll tear you apart!; I'll rip your guts out! (muy_familiar)
2 (barriga) (gen) belly; tummy (familiar)
echar tripa to put on weight; start to get a paunch; tener mucha tripa to be fat; have a paunch; llenar la tripa a costa de otro to eat well at somebody else's expense
(España) [de mujer encinta] bulge
dejar a una chica con tripa to get a girl in the family way; estar con tripa to be in the family way
3 [de fruta] core; seeds
plural
; (p)
4
las tripas (mecanismo) the insides (familiar); the works; (piezas) the parts; sacar las tripas de un reloj to take out the works of a watch
5 [de vasija] belly; bulge
6 (Com) (Jur) etc (expediente) file; dossier
7 (Caribe) [de neumático] inner tube

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