esperpento

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Spanish

Etymology

From Galician esperpento.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /espeɾˈpento/
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  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: es‧per‧pen‧to

Noun

esperpento m (plural esperpentos)

  1. the fingerling of the red gurnard
  2. grotesque individual, act or plot, spectacle
    • 1884, Benito Pérez Galdós, La de Bringas:
      Sólo tú, grandísimo tonto, haces tales esperpentos, y sólo a mi mujer le gustan.
      Only you, you massive idiot, put on such grotesque shows, and only my wife likes them.
  3. monstrosity (horrendously deformed, misshapen or hideous individual)
    • 1892, Benito Pérez Galdós, chapter XXV, in Tristana:
      –Pues quédese en lo que quieras. Pues digo que tú misma, si yo estuviese de humor y te… No, no te ruborices… ¡Si pensarás que eres un esperpento!… No; arreglándote un poquito, resultarías muy aceptable. Tienes unos ojos que ya los quisieran más de cuatro.
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  4. (theater, literature) a genre of theatre and writing defining personal, reality-warping, grotesque writings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán
    • 2008, Dru Dougherty, “El teatro impuro: el carácter intergenérico del esperpento”, in Fernando Doménech, editor, Teatro español, Editorial Fundamentos, →ISBN, page 91:
      Durante años se ha estudiado el esperpento valleinclaniano como género —o «estilo» aplicable a varios géneros—conocido por su peculiar manera de representar la realidad histórica española.
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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: esperpent

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