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Spanish
Etymology
From caldera + -illa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaldeˈɾiʝa/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaldeˈɾiʎa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaldeˈɾiʃa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaldeˈɾiʒa/
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa
- Syllabification: cal‧de‧ri‧lla
Noun
calderilla f (plural calderillas)
- small change (coins of little value)
- Synonym: sencillo
2015 July 31, “Metamorfosis”, in El País:En los establecimientos donde pago con billetes, recibo la vuelta con aprensión, como si la calderilla pudiera producirme un eccema.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (US) peanuts, (UK) shrapnel (A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary))
- Synonym: chatarra
2018, Mercedes Sánchiz Baell, Insomnios de Alcantarilla y Otros Cuentos Bárbaros:Si no fuera por mí estaría en la puta calle, arrastrándose por las esquinas, chupándosela a viejos chochos por calderilla- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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