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Spanish
Etymology
From calleja + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaʝexeˈaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /kaʎexeˈaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaʃexeˈaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaʒexeˈaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ca‧lle‧je‧ar
Verb
callejear (first-person singular present callejeo, first-person singular preterite callejeé, past participle callejeado)
- (intransitive) to wander, to amble (through streets)
2015 November 25, “Opinión”, in El País:En aquel entonces Tom Waits era el prototipo de baladista beatnik ; tenía fijación por los relatos paranoicos de Charles Bukowski, por los mitos en la carretera de Jack Kerouac o conservaba el deseo fugaz de estar callejeando por Nueva Orleans (en Small Change también está el corte I wish i was in New Orleans), con el jazz como huída y el camino señalado hasta la perdición.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to gallivant, to gad
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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