boca floja
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “loose mouth”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]boca floja m or f (masculine and feminine plural boca floja or (less common) bocas flojas)
- (colloquial, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador) indiscrete
Noun
[edit]boca floja m or f by sense (plural boca floja or (less common) bocas flojas)
- (colloquial, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador) an indiscrete person
Further reading
[edit]- “boca floja”, 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
- “boca” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
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