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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡaʝiˈnexas/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ɡaʎiˈnexas/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡaʃiˈnexas/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡaʒiˈnexas/
- Rhymes: -exas
- Syllabification: ga‧lli‧ne‧jas
Noun
gallinejas f pl (plural only)
- chitterlings
1887, Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta:Era la vecina del bohardillón, llamada comúnmente la gallinejera, por tener puesto de gallineja y fritanga en la esquina de la Arganzuela.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1904, Pío Baroja, La busca, Parte II/Chapter III:En la taberna, gran número de mendigos, sentados en las mesas, engullían pedazos de bacalao y piltrafas de carne; un olor picante de gallinejas y de aceite salía de la cocina.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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