Translation for "swear word" to spanish
Translation examples
And ‘scunner’ is a kind of swear word.
Y «pámpano» es una especie de palabrota.
(She was a user of swear words.
(Ella era usuaria habitual de palabrotas.
My father shouted a swear-word at it.
Mi padre le soltó una palabrota.
He couldn’t find the right swear word.
No encontró la palabrota apropiada.
His mother winced at the swear word.
Su madre hizo una mueca de disgusto por las palabrotas.
Not the favorite swear word of either man.
No era precisamente la palabrota favorita de ninguno de los dos hombres.
My father didn’t usually use swear words.
Mi padre no decía nunca palabrotas.
He whispered the name like a swear word.
Susurró el nombre como si se tratara de una palabrota.
Where were the swear words when you really needed them?
¿Dónde estaban las palabrotas cuando una las necesitaba?
noun
He exclaimed something in Russian that I recognized as a swear word.
Me pareció que decía algún taco en ruso.
I tried saying a few words – swear words – just to check that everything was in working order.
Intenté decir alguna palabra —un taco— simplemente para verificar que mi cuerpo funcionaba.
He also reminded me that I belonged with him and Ellen and Charlie—and that I could pray and cuss all I wanted provided I had enough money to pay Charlie for the swear words.
También me recordó que sí encajaba con él, con Ellen y Charlie, y que podía rezar y maldecir todo lo que quisiera, siempre que tuviera suficiente dinero para pagarle a Charlie por cada taco.
"This thing you've just passed is utterly and totally insane." I considered it a great feat on my part that I didn't use any swear words there because I had some adjectives in mind that were much more fitting.
—Esto que acaban de aprobar ustedes es total y absolutamente demencial —consideré un gran logro por mi parte el no haber dicho ningún taco, porque tenía en mente una serie de adjetivos que encajaban mucho mejor—.
He took no interest in Indians, and his Urdu consisted mainly of swear-words, with all the verbs in the third person singular.
No mostraba ningún interés por los indios, y su urdu básicamente se limitaba a insultos y groserías que sólo sabía conjugar en la tercera persona del singular.
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