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Galician
Etymology
From Medieval Latin farmalio (“deceit, fraud”), probably itself from *malfario:[1] compare Italian malfare, French malfaire.
Pronunciation
Noun
faramalla f (plural faramallas)
- claptrap
- Synonym: verborrea
c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:Diras que todo esto he Palla;
por que te ues conuencido
ben sei que o que esta vencido
di, que todo he faramalla:- You'll say that all of this is straw
because you see yourself convinced
I know well that the defeated one
says that everything is claptrap
- mess, tangle; trick, deceit
Derived terms
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faramalla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zaramalla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “faramalla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Spanish
Noun
faramalla f (plural faramallas)
- claptrap; tosh
- boasting; showing off
2017 August 11, “Abre Bátiz la puerta a sus memorias”, in Frontera.info:Dice no ser rico en propiedades, pero sí en reconocimiento, porque es músico, no artista, y un artista hace faramallas, él se dedica a llevar su música al corazón de los demás convirtiéndolo en un eslabón del rock.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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