The 28th Word of the Month is: INSECTS
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The 28th Word of the Month is: INSECTS
This word originally appeared
in our Spanish word of the month by email
Homepage: http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
| Spanish |
English |
| INSECTOS
- INSECTS | |
| una abeja | a bee |
| un abejorro | a bumblebee |
| una avispa | a wasp |
| un mosquito | a mosquito |
| un mosquito | a gnat |
| una pulga | a flea |
| una mosca | a fly |
| una hormiga | an ant |
| una araña | a spider |
| una cucaracha | a cockroach |
| un escarabajo | a beetle |
| un avispón | a hornet |
| una mariposa | a butterfly |
| una tijereta, un cortapicos | an earwig |
| una langosta, una tucura | a locust |
| un saltamontes | a grasshopper |
| una mariquita | a ladybird |
| una típula | a daddy longlegs |
| una oruga | a caterpillar |
| una viuda negra | a black widow spider |
| una mantis religiosa | a praying mantis |
| una tarántula | a tarantula |
| un bicho | a bug, a creepy-crawly |
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INSECT-RELATED WORDS | |
| una picadura de mosquito | a mosquito bite |
| un mercado de las pulgas, un rastro | a flea market |
| una tela de araña, una telaraña | a spider's web |
| un perro pulgoso | a flea-bitten dog |
| un hotel cochambroso / de mala muerte | a flea-bitten hotel, a fleabag hotel |
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INSECT PHRASES | |
| armar mucho revuelo, alborotar el avispero | to stir up a hornet's nest |
| tener monomanía con algo, tener algo metido entre ceja y ceja | to have a bee in your bonnet |
|
creerse el no
va más | to
think one is the bee's knees He thinks he's the bees knees |
| echar a alguien con cajas destempladas, mandar al aguien de paseo | to send someone away with a flea in their ear |
| tener hormigas en el culo | to have ants in your pants |
| ponerte nervioso Se puso nervioso |
to get butterflies
in your stomach He got butterflies in his stomach. |
| Me habría gustado estar allí. | I'd like to have been a fly on the wall. |
| No tiene un pelo de tonta. | There are no flies on her. |
| morir / caer como moscas | to die / drop like flies |
| Lleva la bragueta abierta. | Your flies are undone. |
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