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paja.

straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpaxa/[ˈpa.xa]
  1. straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)

    countable · feminine
  2. straw (dried stalks considered collectively)

    feminine · uncountable
    Él tiene puesto un sombrero de paja.
  3. drinking straw

    feminine
  4. wank, jerk off, handjob, masturbation

    feminine · slang · vulgar
    Me hizo una paja muy rica en el coche mientras yo conducía.
  5. lie, falsehood

    Colombia · El-Salvador · Guatemala · Venezuela · colloquial · feminine
    Todos los políticos hablan paja.
  6. very good, great, excellent

    Peru · feminine · slang
    ¡Que canción paja tocaron en la radio!
  7. laziness, tiredness, fatigue

    Argentina · Chile · feminine · uncountable · vulgar
    ¿Tenemos que caminar treinta cuadras? ¡Qué paja!
  8. effort, a task, for example, that requires a lot of energy to complete.

    Chile · feminine · uncountable · vulgar
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Spanish paja, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

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