chirajiento
Spanish
Etymology
From chirajo (“rags”) + -iento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiɾaˈxjento/ [t͡ʃi.ɾaˈxjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: chi‧ra‧jien‧to
Adjective
chirajiento (feminine chirajienta, masculine plural chirajientos, feminine plural chirajientas)
- (rare, colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador, of a person) tattered; ragged
- Synonym: andrajoso
Further reading
- “chirajiento”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010