Meaning of pouco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a little of something; not enough
2. a short while

Examples

“ponlle papuxas de farellos coytas en vinagre et con pouco de seuo”

apply a poultice of bran boiled in vinegar, with a little of tallow

“— [...] despois poñíanvos na tortura do potro, atandovos antes os pés e as más; despois levabades oito garrotes; e si con todo esto non confesabades, fasíanvos tragar unha chea d'agua para que arremedásedes os afogados. Mais esto era pouco, que remataban a festa poñendovos os pés encoiro untados de pingo nun sepo, e despois traían unha chea de lume pra frixílos, ou pra poñerllo debaixo, e outras mil xudiadas, tanto que ás veses nin aínda lles permitían confesarse. —¡Ave María! Eu confesaría o que me preguntasen, aún cando no'fixese. —Eu o mesmo.”

— [The Inquisition:] after this they would take you to the rack, tying your hands and your feet; after this they would hit you eight times with a club; and if, in spite of this, you didn't confess, then they obliged you to shallow a large quantity of water as if you should imitate a drowned man. But this was not enough, because they ended the celebration putting your bare feet, buttered with lard, in a clamp, and they would bring a large fire for frying them, or for putting them under it; and another thousand mean things. They even sometimes don't allowed them to confess. —Ave María! I would admit anything they would ask, even if I had not done it. —Me too.

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