rampell
Catalan
FWOTD – 20 May 2019
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rampell m (plural rampells)
- sudden urge, whim, frenzy
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- El pobre dimoni s'havia tornat boig, boig del tot. Al final li va agafar un rampell i va acabar disparant-me amb un revòlver […].
- The poor sod had gone mad, all mad. In the end some frenzy overcame him and he ended up shooting at me with a revolver […].
Derived terms
- rampellar-se
- rampellut
Further reading
- “rampell”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007