Translation for "lapping up" to spanish

Lapping up

verb

• absorber
• aprender con facilidad
• tomar a leng端etadas
• beber con la lengua
• tomar con la lengua
• comer
• aceptar
• beber a leng端etazos con avidez

Translation examples

comer verb

Some of the men shook so bad they had to be fed, or they just bent down and lapped up their food, like cats.
Algunos de los hombres temblaban tanto que había que darles de comer, o simplemente se agachaban y comían a lengüetazos, como los gatos.

He had seen a hungry rat lapping up red pepper and sitting in a pan of wate to keep its stomach cool.
Una vez había visto a una rata hambrienta que, después de comer guindillas, se metió en una olla de agua para refrescarse la panza.

And then, on this day of the first snow, he saw his comrade do a strange and unaccountable thing. He began to eat things that he had never touched as food before. He lapped up soft pine needles, and swallowed them. He ate of the dry, pulpy substance of rotted logs.
Desde el primer día de nieve, el osezno se puso a comer cosas extrañas, en particular hojillas tiernas de pino, y pulpa seca de troncos podridos.