Tuesday, April 12, 2011
lâche
Saturday, March 19, 2011
« La goutte d'eau qui fait déborder le vase »
On a tous observé ces récipients remplis un peu au delà de leur bord, la limite bombée du liquide 'accrochée' au bord du récipient, avec le trop-plein prêt à s'écouler à l'extérieur au moindre choc ou dès qu'on y rajoute une goutte.
L'expression fait bien le parallèle entre la tension ou l'énervement qui monte (le vase qui se remplit jusqu'à être bien plein) et l'explosion qui suit (le vase qui finit par déborder dès que la petite goutte de trop y a été versée).
Friday, February 18, 2011
cacophonie
Sainte-Beuve, Poésies, 1829, p. 156.
Baudelaire, Salon, 1846, p. 192.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
[1] Casa / Home / La maison
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
crispar
1. tr. Causar contracción repentina y pasajera en el tejido muscular o en cualquier otro de naturaleza contráctil. U. t. c. prnl.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
chickenshit
- Contemptibly petty, insignificant nonsense.
- A coward.
- Contemptibly unimportant; petty.
- Cowardly; afraid.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
blah
- Worthless nonsense; drivel.
- blahs A general feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, or depression: "Monday morning Oscar woke up with the blahs" (New Yorker).
- Dull and uninteresting.
- Low in spirit or health; down: sat around all day feeling blah.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
flaky
- Made of or resembling flakes.
- Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments: flaky pastry.
- Slang. Somewhat eccentric; odd: "that slightly flakey quality, in joy as well as in grief, that prepares us subtly for the mad scenes to come" (Village Voice).
flakiness flak'i·ness n.
| Hacker Slang: flaky |
(var sp. flakey) Subject to frequent lossage. This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of — enough that you are tempted to try to use it — but fails frequently enough that the odds in favor of finishing what you start are low. Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy or wonky.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
| neglected | ||||
| A | adjective | |||
| 1 | neglected, unattended | |||
| lacking a caretaker; "a neglected child"; "many casualties were lying unattended" | ||||
| 2 | ignored, neglected, unheeded | |||
| disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice" | ||||
high-maintenance (comparative more high-maintenance, superlative most high-maintenance)
- Describes a system which requires a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning and without which it is likely to break down.
- (figuratively, of a person) Who requires a lot of attention.
- He has this incredibly high-maintenance girlfriend; if he doesn't tell her that he loves her every five minutes, she tends to break down into hysterical depressive weepy fits.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
vacación
1. f. Descanso temporal de una actividad habitual, principalmente del trabajo remunerado o de los estudios. U. m. en pl.
2. f. Tiempo que dura la cesación del trabajo. U. m. en pl.
3. f. p. us. Acción de vacar (‖ quedar un empleo o cargo sin persona que lo desempeñe).
Saturday, August 22, 2009
paciencia
1. f. Capacidad de padecer o soportar algo sin alterarse.
2. f. Capacidad para hacer cosas pesadas o minuciosas.
3. f. Facultad de saber esperar cuando algo se desea mucho.
4. f. Lentitud para hacer algo.
5. f. Resalte inferior del asiento de una silla de coro, de modo que, levantado aquel, pueda servir de apoyo a quien está de pie.
6. f. Bollo redondo y muy pequeño hecho con harina, huevo, almendra y azúcar y cocido en el horno.
Friday, August 21, 2009
roller coaster
- A steep, sharply curving elevated railway with small open passenger cars that is operated at high speeds as a ride, especially in an amusement park.
- An action, event, or experience marked by abrupt, extreme changes in circumstance, quality, or behavior: “the demographic roller coaster caused by the baby boom” (American Demographics).
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
detriment
- Damage, harm, or loss: took a long leave of absence without detriment to her career. See synonyms at disadvantage.
- Something that causes damage, harm, or loss: Smoking is now considered a detriment to good health.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dētrīmentum, from dētrītus, past participle of dēterere, to lessen, wear down : dē-, de- + terere, to rub.]
Friday, August 14, 2009
anticlimax
n.
- A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career.
- Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events: After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax.
- A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of it: “Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling ‘for God, for Country and for Yale’ the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language” (Time).
anticlimactically an'ti·cli·mac'ti·cal·ly adv.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
dengue
(Voz onomat.).
1. m. Melindre que consiste en afectar delicadezas, males y, a veces, disgusto de lo que más se quiere o desea.
2. m. Esclavina de paño, usada por las mujeres, que llega hasta la mitad de la espalda, se cruza por el pecho, y las puntas se sujetan detrás del talle.
3. m. Med. Enfermedad febril, epidémica y contagiosa, que se manifiesta por dolores de los miembros y un exantema semejante al de la escarlatina.
4. m. Am. contoneo.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
punyeter -a
| adj i m i f vulg 1 Carregat de punyetes; que molesta, empipa o causa perjudici; emprenyador. Aquesta punyetera feina no s'acaba mai! És un punyeter, tot el dia m'està empipant. | ||
2 Murri, espavilat per a aconseguir de la gent allò que l'interessa. El teu germà és un punyeter, sempre se surt amb la seva. | ||
punyeta
[de puny] | ||
| | f 1 ant Masturbació. | |
| | 2 vulg 1 Nom donat a qualsevol cosa que molesta, que no té cap utilitat, de poca importància. Això de no poder fumar és una punyeta. Deixa't de punyetes i vés al gra. Estàs carregat de punyetes si penses que estàs massa gras. | |
| | | 2 a la quinta punyeta loc adv Molt lluny. Viu a la quinta punyeta. Anar algú a la quinta punyeta. |
3 anar-se'n a fer punyetes Fer-se malbé una cosa, desaparèixer. Tot el negoci se n'ha anat a fer punyetes. | ||
4 anar (o anar-se'n) a fer punyetes [ emprat en forma imperativa per a engegar algú de mala manera ] Vés a fer punyetes. | ||
5 enviar (o engegar) (algú) a fer punyetes Engegar-lo de mala manera. | ||
6 fer la punyeta (a algú) Fastiguejar-lo, molestar-lo, impedir-li de fer allò que volia. | ||
3 interj vulg Expressió que denota enuig, contrarietat, etc. | ||
