mona

drunkenness

mona(moh-nah)

feminine noun

1.

(colloquial)

(drinking binge)

a. drunkenness

Con la mona que tenía, no recuerda nada de lo que hizo.

Given his drunkenness, he can't remember anything he did.

2. (card games)

a. old maid

Los niños pasaron la tarde jugando a la mona.

The kids spent the afternoon playing mona.

3.

(colloquial)

(imitator)

a. copycat

Está cansada de que su hermana sea su mona.

She is tired of her sister being her copycat.

4. (culinary)

(Spain)

a. Easter cake

Probamos una mona deliciosa cuando fuimos a Valencia.

We tried a delicious Easter cake when we went to Valencia.

5. (bullfighting)

a. shin guard

El picador no llevaba mona y el toro le lastimó la pierna.

The picador wasn't wearing a shin guard and the bull ended up hurting his leg.

mona

Noun

1. (colloquial)

a.

coger una monato get legless

dormir la monato sleep it off

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mona

1 (Zoología) (hembra) female monkey; (especie) Barbary ape

mandar a algn a freír monas to tell sb where to go (familiar); tell sb to get lost (familiar)

aunque la mona se vista de seda (mona se queda) you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

2 (copión) copycat (familiar)

3 (borrachera)

coger o pillar una mona to get sloshed o plastered (familiar); dormir la mona to sleep it off

4

mona de Pascua Easter cake

5 (Latinoamérica) (droga) Colombian golden marijuana

6

andar o estar como la mona (S. Cone) (sin dinero) to be broke (familiar); (desgraciado) to feel terrible

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