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Meaning of pega | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
ˈpeɡa

Definitions

  1. hobble
    feminine
  2. magpie
    feminine
  3. impediment; hindrance
    feminine
  4. hinge
    feminine

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Examples

“1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95”

Item, thrushes and blackbirds each one a crown. Item woodpeckers and magpies and snipes, four crowns each one

“Cregos, frades, pegas e choyas, do a demo tas quatro joyas (proverb)”

Priests, friars, magpies and choughs, I give to the devil these four jewels

“Dempois vin dúas lavandeiras que depenicaban unha espiga de trigo na leira de Xan de Pedreira, unha pomba que voaba pró souto de Fonte Boa, unha péga que fuxía de un lagarteiro, catro corvos que espaturraban un canciño morto na carballeira, un melro que asubiaba entre as follas dun cereixo, un carpinteiro que facía o burato pró seu niño; e unha laverca que rebulía no aire, con unha miñoquiña no pico.”

After this I saw two wagtails which were pecking a wheat spike at the field of Xan de Pedreira, a dove flying to the wood of Fonte Boa, a magpie fleeing from a kestrel, four ravens which were clawing at a dead pup at the oak grove, a blackbird whistling in the leaves of a cherry tree, a woodpecker making the hole of its nest; and a lark fluttering in the air with a little earthworm in its beak.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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