Meaning of esquivo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. asocial
2. elusive
3. rude, cruel
4. scarce, miserly, stingy
5. harsh

Examples

“Et tã grande foy aly a batalla et tã esquiua que de mayor nõ poderia ome falar”

So large and crude was the battle [fought] there, that none could say that he had seen any larger one

“1427, José I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites (ed.), Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón. Lugo: Diputación, page 187”

Item, I order that they should bring thirty priest to my sepulchre … and any other priest brought there; they shouldn't be mean.

“Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr”

And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

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