apaño
Galician
editVerb
editapaño
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editDeverbal from apañar (“to fix”).
Noun
editapaño m (plural apaños)
- (colloquial) quick fix; patching up
- 1991 January 13, “Soluciones y apaños”, in El País[1], Madrid, →ISSN:
- Todos los implicados deberían hacer un esfuerzo para llegar a un acuerdo, aunque ninguno de ellos debería quedar satisfecho con este apaño, defendible sólo si se enmarca en una política global.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial) fling, on-off relationship
- (colloquial) person in an on-off relationship
Etymology 2
editVerb
editapaño
Further reading
edit- “apaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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