Meaning of pierde-vară | Babel Free

Definitions

one who wastes time, do-nothing, lazybones; good-for-nothing

masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“1880, Ion Creangă, Memories of My Boyhood, part I”

Until evening I had sung Christmas carols the entire village through, and even went for a swim on top of that, with my friend Chiriac son of Goian, a rambler and lazybones like me.

“Să aluneci pe poleiul de pe ulițele ninse, Să privești prin lucii geamuri la luminile aprinse Și s-o vezi înconjurată de un roi de pierde-vară,”

To slip on the black ice on the snow-covered streets, To look at the burning lights through shiny windows And see her, circled by a crowd of good-for-nothings, smiling to all with her easy thoughts?

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