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Spanish
Etymology
From pacotilla + -ero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /pakotiˈʝeɾo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /pakotiˈʎeɾo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /pakotiˈʃeɾo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /pakotiˈʒeɾo/
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: pa‧co‧ti‧lle‧ro
Noun
pacotillero m (plural pacotilleros, feminine pacotillera, feminine plural pacotilleras)
- (derogatory, Latin America) junk dealer
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 281:Los comerciantes lo [este talismán] colocan bajo el umbral o sobre el dintel de la puenta de su tienda; los faltes (buhoneros), pacotilleros, zurupetos y demás mercachifles y corredores ambulantes y trashumantes, lo llevan en el bolsillo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2017 January 19, “¿Malvados o estúpidos?”, in El Nacional:Se acusa el crecimiento de los pacotilleros de extrema derecha, pero no se indica con igual ímpetu a la mafia de la izquierda radical del Foro de Sao Paulo, heredera de la maldición castrista que viene destruyendo todo a su paso.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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