Meaning of sopapo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. smack
   masculine
2. undercut
   masculine
3. Equivalent to 'smack': A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack

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Examples

“A cada berro que daba ibame seando atrás p[o]r se acaso me encaixaba un sopapo da sua man:”

For each shout he gave I was moving back in case he delivered me a smack of his hand

“Os escoleres quixeron Compol o diallo d’a zambra Con paliq’e cortesias Pro os demos repricaban Zimbrando sopapos ‘n eles Coma quen chobe saraiba.”

the sorcerers wanted to appease the devil of the uproar with chitchat and courtesies but the demons replied delivering smacks on them as if raining hailstone

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