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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

quintillo

English translation:

200ml bottle of beer

Added to glossary by Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
Oct 22, 2009 10:09
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term

quintillo

Spanish to English Other Tourism & Travel Beer
I presume it's like the 'quinto' bottle, but how to translate it?

Lo que mas me gusta de las islas Canarias sin duda alguna, son los ***quintillos**, creo que mi estancia en la Isla de Fuerteventura no hubiera sido la misma sin ellos. Gracias hasta pequeña gran cerveza de la marca Tropical, he aumentado mis ralaciones personales y mi barriga cervecera, es tanto mi admiracion por ella que cuando tenga un niño lo pondre ‘quintillo’ y si es niña la pondre ‘resaka’. Yo no se si saldra en las guias o no, lo unico que se, es que en mi frigorifico no puede faltar un ***quintillo***, creo que es el segundo mejor invento del hombre, despues del mando a distancia jejejeje (bueno la beca erasmus tambien es un gran invento). Yo estoy preparado para ser embajador de nuestro archipilelago, llebando el nombre de Tropical a lo mas alto al resto de europa.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 small beer
4 +4 stubbie
Change log

Oct 28, 2009 08:19: Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/583344">Lisa McCarthy's</a> old entry - "quintillo"" to ""(200ml bottle of beer)""

Proposed translations

+1
9 mins
Selected

small beer

"Quintillo" es un diminutivo de "quinto" = 200 cc. Aquí en Jaén los llamamos "botellín".
Claro que "small beer" también puede ser un "tercio".

Ejemplo:
FORO DE BUCEO DEPORTIVO :: Ver tema - Os presento mi futura buceadora. - [ Translate this page ]
No me resisto pongo unas fotos del otro día viendo la F1. Para las mentes sensibles no se bebió un quinto de cerveza........ se bebió dos. Diablillo ...
www.forobuceo.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=453085... - Cached - Similar -

Salvajemente amateur 2006 | bruto - [ Translate this page ]
Bueno, lo dicho, un saludo a todos, sé que alguno se comió una chuletita, se bebió un quinto (o tercio) y se hizo unos riffs por mí. Salud. You Meikmisic ...
bruto.muzaidin.com/2006/salvajemente-amateur-2006/ - Cached - Similar -

Trip to Spain 2006
We nipped into a place selling tapas but they seemed to be a bit expensive and confusing so we had a small beer and left. We then found a bar where we ... In Barcelona they speak Catalan rather then Spanish, but do understand Spanish. ...
www.rimerson.com/Spain-trip06/Spain-06.html - Cached - Similar -
Peer comment(s):
neutral David Ronder : A small beer is accurate but sounds a bit funny to me because of its idiomatic meaning./ Yes, "the smallest bottled beer", nicely put. But for boozy Northern Europeans, that's more than 200ml!/Alejandro, I meant the idiom 'small beer', not you unidiomatic
10 mins
Yes, I'm not too happy with it either. I think the idea is "the smallest bottled beer", which in Spain is 200cc. Does "stubbie" convey that idea?
agree Rick Larg : Maybe "small bottles of beer". See: http://www.beerexpert.co.uk/BottledBeer.html
2 hrs
Yes, that's good and more precise, but still unidiomatic, like my rendering. Thank you, Rick.
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Alejandro. Went with a description of the bottle instead. 'Stubbie' is a term I've haven´t heard used much so I didn´t feel comfortable using it."
+4
6 mins

stubbie

Short, 250 cl bottle?

Stubby also possible.

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Note added at 8 mins (2009-10-22 10:17:28 GMT)
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Some images for stubbie here:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&sa=1&...

I think it was possibly originally an Aussie word. Pretty common in UK English now.

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-10-22 10:23:13 GMT)
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Wikipedia says 'Stubby' and has them "shorter and flatter than standard bottles" but says they start from 330 ml. In London at least we call the 250 ml bottles stubbies. I think it's a good equivalent for the 'quinto', anyway. Cheers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_bottle


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Note added at 3 days2 hrs (2009-10-25 12:11:13 GMT)
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Ocado have a category for stubbies ranging from 207 ml to 250 ml:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.do?tags=|20001|21064|21144|21148

Here's a trade magazine piece referring to them as "the smaller, foreign style bottles":

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/home/heineken-tries-stubby-bo...

And a similar industry ref. here:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14962613.html

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Note added at 3 days2 hrs (2009-10-25 12:13:49 GMT)
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Ocado should be right here: http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.dotags=|20001|21064|21144|21148

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Note added at 3 days2 hrs (2009-10-25 12:16:00 GMT)
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Don't know what's wrong with that Ocado link, but if you put 'stubbies' in the Ocado search field, you get the page.



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Note added at 3 days2 hrs (2009-10-25 12:17:16 GMT)
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One last try:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.do?tags=|20001|21064|21144|21148

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Note added at 3 days2 hrs (2009-10-25 12:41:30 GMT)
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Good pic here - note the 207 ml Bud:

http://www.familyhampers.co.uk/AgencyOnlineWeb/catalogue/C17...
Peer comment(s):
agree Matt Horsman : beat me to it!!! Hehe yeah comes from Australia originally. Only thing is that a quinto is 200ml, however I think this is the best way to translate it
4 mins
Cheers, ElGuiri. 200 ml is just too small for us!
agree HugoSteckel : think this is a much more idiomatic option than anything else. Perhaps in the States they might say a quart? I had a friend who used to talk about "quart beer".
15 mins
Don't know about quart, sounds big to me. But thanks/cheers, hjs45
neutral Rick Larg : See: http://www.beerexpert.co.uk/BottledBeer.html
2 hrs
Thanks, Rick, good reference. They can be 330 ml, but are often smaller - and, crucially, other bottles hold more. An exact translation of 'quinto'? No. A handy equivalent? I think so.
agree Natalia Pedrosa (X)
3 hrs
Thanks, Natalia
agree Jenny Westwell
4 hrs
Thanks, Jenny
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