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Tag: trapo

Definitions tagged trapo in the street dictionary.

Roílla

A term used in Málaga for a rag reserved strictly for kitchen use. Its classification is very specific: if it is ever used even once to wipe a dining table or a bathroom sink, it loses its status. (In this region, the word is a local phonetic variation of rodilla, which historically referred to a cleaning cloth).

Remind me later to put the roílla in the wash.

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Españaby NikoIzq

peon

A kitchen towel or dishcloth used by cooks and their assistants. (The name likens the rag to a manual laborer or pawn because it does all the grunt work).

Kitchen peon.

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Colombiaby Anónimo

piltrafa

A worn out, filthy rag, especially one ruined by liquids. By extension, it refers to a person who is a total physical or emotional wreck.

This thing is a piltrafa.

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Chileby Anónimo

argofifa

A floor rag, typically an old or discarded piece of clothing, used to scrub floors after being rinsed in a bucket. (The term is also used in the southern Spanish region of Extremadura.)

Wring out the argofifa.

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Globalby JM Sancho

HUANCHIPO

A cloth roll placed on the head to cushion and balance large baskets of bread, typical in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacan. (Tierra Caliente is a geographic and cultural region in southwest Mexico known for its hot climate and specific rural traditions).

Kid, put on the HUANCHIPO so you can carry the bread basket.

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Méxicoby Marco A.Salgado Garcia

argofifa

A floor rag used in Seville for cleaning floors before the invention of the modern mop (referring to the traditional method of scrubbing floors by hand while kneeling).

A wet rag with detergent, used while kneeling to scrub the floors.

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Españaby Rafael