Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
cagadera
English translation:
the trots / the hershey squirts / the runs / the scoots
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Ana Claudia Macoretta
Jul 10, 2016 22:16
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Spanish term
cagadera
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This is from a memoir of an Argentine player at the World Cup in 86. Is it a reference to diarrhea, something that visitors to Mexico often face? Or is it closer to "cagaga" which means screwing up...
Dos días antes, el director técnico había parado un equipo, en una práctica de cuarenta y cinco minutos, en la que XXX todavía estaba. Y eso que ya había empezado con la cagadera. O, por lo menos, eso decía.
Thanks
Dos días antes, el director técnico había parado un equipo, en una práctica de cuarenta y cinco minutos, en la que XXX todavía estaba. Y eso que ya había empezado con la cagadera. O, por lo menos, eso decía.
Thanks
Proposed translations
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4 +2 | the trots / the hershey squirts / the runs / the scoots |
Ana Claudia Macoretta
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3 +2 | diarrhea |
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
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Jul 18, 2016 18:23: Ana Claudia Macoretta Created KOG entry
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the trots / the hershey squirts / the runs / the scoots
*cagadera* is the Argentinean linguistic variant of the Spanish colloquial term *cagalera* http://dle.rae.es/?id=6cPl9k6
Of course, Wendy, the medical term for this condition is diarrhoea, as you mention, and to maintain the same informal linguistic register the football player has used I would translate it using any of these:
I had the trots / the hershey squirts / the runs / the scoots
Here you have the story: http://depor.com/noticia/900702/carlos-bilardo-le-dio-laxant...
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diarrhea
I gather from the context that the player suffers from the actual medical condition, or so he says.
Screwing up is "cagarla" but this does not seem to be the case, as they are only training, not competing.
Screwing up is "cagarla" but this does not seem to be the case, as they are only training, not competing.
Peer comment(s):
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neilmac
: Yes... AKA "Montezuma's revenge"...
9 hrs
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In this case it was not Moctezuma. but some dirty work behind the scenes. Saludos - Bea
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Mary Gardner Hume
10 hrs
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Thanks - Bea
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Reference comments
10 mins
Reference:
cagadera SF (LAm) tener cagadera → to have the shits o trots o runs - http://es.thefreedictionary.com/cagadera
13 mins
Reference:
Refs.
Wendy:
I don't know how informal you want to get!
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=caga...
cagadera
(vulgar) SF (LAm)
tener cagadera to have the shits (offensive) o trots o runs (informal)
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=squ...
Principal Translations
English Spanish
the squits npl (UK slang) (diarrhoea) (coloquial) cagadera nf
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Note added at 13 mins (2016-07-10 22:30:15 GMT)
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http://diccionario.reverso.net/espanol-ingles/cagadera
I don't know how informal you want to get!
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=caga...
cagadera
(vulgar) SF (LAm)
tener cagadera to have the shits (offensive) o trots o runs (informal)
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=squ...
Principal Translations
English Spanish
the squits npl (UK slang) (diarrhoea) (coloquial) cagadera nf
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Note added at 13 mins (2016-07-10 22:30:15 GMT)
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http://diccionario.reverso.net/espanol-ingles/cagadera
Peer comments on this reference comment:
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Ana Claudia Macoretta
13 hrs
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Thank you Ana.
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Phoenix III
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Thank you Phoenix.
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