culebrón

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Spanish

Etymology

From culebra (snake) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix). The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuleˈbɾon/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: cu‧le‧brón

Noun

culebrón m (plural culebrones)

  1. soap opera
  2. large snake
  3. crafty person

References

  1. ^ culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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