Significado de retranca | Babel Free

Definicións

1. latch
   feminine
2. crupper (strap looped under a horse’s tail)
   feminine
3. cart brake
   feminine
4. double meaning, double entendre; trick, ruse
   feminine
5. allegedly, characteristic sense of humour of the Galician people, based on irony, double entendre and a hint of cynicism
   feminine

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Exemplos

“Foronse a dormir⟳ os tres i o galleguiño rascaba a testa, como buscando unha idea, unha retranca; Iba para o seu chaleque dicindo: — ¿Quén é o que gana a un andalús a mentire?”

They three went to sleep, and the Galician was scratching his head, as searching for an idea, a ruse. He was walking telling his vest: "Who's going to defeat an Andalusian at lying?"

“que se non vos esqueza que pra un paisano dos de Galicia: nunca hai mal preito que buscando retranca non lle dé xeito”

don't forget that for a Galician peasant «there's never a bad lawsuit you can not make good finding a double meaning»

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