Meaning of xente bafúa | Babel Free

Definitions

miserable people, rabble

dated, derogatory, idiomatic, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“tanpouco deixan entrar as Autoridàs á oir Misa na Capilla mayore e solo lle poñen os bancos xûnto as reixâs, como si fora xênte bafúa”

they would neither allow the [civil] authorities to hear mass at the main chapel, and they just put some benches by the gates, as if they were low people

“qu'é moitiña honra dinidá e fachenda poder un homiño ben erguida'a testa decir en bo torgo: Miña terra é esta. Só por unha chisca d'homildade fea que non vén ó caso porque x'é baixeza de xente bafúa e gafa ralea indina de entr'homes ergué-la cabeza algús galleguiños d'almiña pequena cativa, mingoada, coa boca aberta ó tempo que scoitan cen linguas alleas e danlle mil laudes sin valer corenta enzarran a súa no fondo da terra pensando que dina non é como aquelas”

because it's large honour, dignity and pride, for a common man, his head high, to say with clear voice: This is my land. Just for a little bit of ugly humbleness —that is beside the point, because it is but lowness typical of despicable people, leprous kind, unfit for rising the head among men— some Galicians having a small, worthless, diminished soul, their mouth open at the same time that they hear a hundred foreign tongues, which they give a thousand praises whilst not worthing forty, they bury their language under the ground thinking that is not as worthy as theirs

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