puntilla
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish puntilla. Doublet of pointelle.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpuntilla (countable and uncountable, plural puntillas)
- (countable, bullfighting) The small dagger for administering the coup de grâce to the bull.
- Decorative lacework.
Finnish
editNoun
editpuntilla
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom punta + -illa. Cognate with English pointel and pointelle.
Pronunciation
edit
- Syllabification: pun‧ti‧lla
Noun
editpuntilla f (plural puntillas)
- puntilla, dagger
- (bullfighting) puntilla
- (also figurative) final blow, coup de grâce
- Synonym: golpe de gracia
- dar la puntilla ― to deliver the final blow
- 2020 July 26, “La cuarentena británica da la puntilla al turismo en España, que se prepara para un verano desastroso”, in El País[1]:
- La cuarentena impuesta por el Reino Unido da la puntilla al turismo español, abocado sin remedio a un verano desastroso.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- tiptoe
- en/de puntillas ― on tiptoes
- 1998, Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes, →ISBN, page 287:
- A eso de las tres me levanté para ir al baño y al pasar de puntillas por la sala escuché que Ulises estaba llorando. No creo que se diera cuentra que yo estaba allí.
- Around three I got up to go to the bathroom, and when I tiptoed through the room I heard that Ulises was crying. I don't think he realized I was there.
- baby squid
- lace (material)
- (cooking) paring knife
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “puntilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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