tentempié
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Spanish
Etymology
A contraction of tente en pie (“keep yourself standing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tentempié m (plural tentempiés)
- snack, refreshment (small portion of food)
- Synonyms: piscolabis, refrigerio
- 2019, Marta Rodríguez Quesada, “Una clase de ingles”, in Esbozos, Edicions Tremendes, →ISBN, page 99:
- Me miró con sus ojos soñadores y me dio el pedacito de pan, alegre, observando con orgullo el deleite que mostré ante tal tentempié.
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- entrée
- Synonym: aperitivo
- roly-poly (toy that rights itself when pushed over)
- Synonym: tentetieso
Further reading
- “tentempié”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
aperitivo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
