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[Linguaphile]

noia girl
noia drug addict, crazie

nõia witch

[Linguaphile]

boliche bowling alley
boliche nightclub; small store
boliche cup-and-ball toy (balero)
boliche a type of pot roast

[linguoboy]

boliche bowling alley
boliche nightclub; small store
boliche cup-and-ball toy (balero)
boliche a type of pot roast

bolig [pronounced /boˈliʧ/] jack ball (for bowls); corn marigold; sweep net
(The first meaning is borrowed from Spanish, the others are ultimately from Greek βολίς.)

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

educado - mannerly
educated

educado can also have the meaning of "educated", and "educated" actually does have a secondary meaning of "mannerly", but the immediate connotations of both are different. When someone describes someone as mal educado they usually mean that they are rude, not that the have not gone through sufficient schooling, which is what my first thought is.

[Linguaphile]

educado - mannerly
educated

educado can also have the meaning of "educated", and "educated" actually does have a secondary meaning of "mannerly", but the immediate connotations of both are different. When someone describes someone as mal educado they usually mean that they are rude, not that the have not gone through sufficient schooling, which is what my first thought is.

It's the same with Spanish: educado = polite, well-mannered; maleducado = rude, impolite, ill-mannered

boliche bowling alley
boliche nightclub; small store
boliche cup-and-ball toy (balero)
boliche a type of pot roast

bolig [pronounced /boˈliʧ/] jack ball (for bowls); corn marigold; sweep net
(The first meaning is borrowed from Spanish, the others are ultimately from Greek βολίς.)

When I came across boliche in Argentine Spanish my first impulse was to think "Why on earth is she asking her husband to pick up some milk from the bowling alley on the way home?" I mean, I knew that couldn't be right, but I had to look it up.

[Car]

educado - mannerly
educated

educado can also have the meaning of "educated", and "educated" actually does have a secondary meaning of "mannerly", but the immediate connotations of both are different. When someone describes someone as mal educado they usually mean that they are rude, not that the have not gone through sufficient schooling, which is what my first thought is.

It's the same with Spanish: educado = polite, well-mannered; maleducado = rude, impolite, ill-mannered

Same in Italian with educato and maleducato respectively as well as French bien/ mal éduqué for well- and ill-mannered respectively.

[OldBoring]

I saw someone in the Milan Expat Facebook group getting angry at an Italian for calling her "maleducata". She was like, how dare this person assume I didn't have an education?

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

to be on the ball - to do well, deal with effectively
pisar na bola (lit. "to step on the ball") - to mess up, screw up

[Linguaphile]

to be on the ball - to do well, deal with effectively
pisar na bola (lit. "to step on the ball") - to mess up, screw up

The meaning depends very much on the verb used. For example:
to drop the ball - to mess up, mishandle things, miss an opportunity
After having dropped the ball, I suppose you might step on it.

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

The meaning depends very much on the verb used. For example:
to drop the ball - to mess up, mishandle things, miss an opportunity
After having dropped the ball, I suppose you might step on it.

True, but confusingly enough, having stepped on the ball, you would now be on it!

[Dormouse559]

adjectif attribut - predicative adjective
attributive adjective

An attributive adjective is one that is part of a noun phrase, as in "ripe fruit". Meanwhile, French adjectif attribut means "predicative adjective", an adjective as the complement in a copular clause, such as "The fruit is ripe". The French term for an attributive adjective is adjectif épithète.