Translation for "turkey-cock" to spanish

Turkey-cock

noun

• pavo

Translation examples

pavo noun

‘You’re as red in the face as a turkey cock.
Tenéis la cara más colorada que un pavo.

He gabbled like an old turkey cock.
Parloteaba como un pavo.

Arthur was as red as a turkey cock.
Arturo se puso rojo como un pavo y preguntó:

He was a weakling, a strutting turkey-cock, a fool.
Él era un pelele, un pavo ufano, un bufón.

he asked, going as wan as the gills of a sick turkey-cock.
—preguntó, poniéndose más lánguido que la barba de un pavo enfermo.

You’re looking very white,’ I went as red as a turkey-cock.
Te veo muy pálido”. Me puse rojo como un pavo.

He’d wanted to shout his command, but the voice that came out of his throat was that of a turkey-cock being strangled.
Habría querido gritar, pero la voz que le salió era la de un pavo al que tiraban del cuello.

The police leant on their guns: one of them yawned-the turkey-cock went hissing back towards the huts.
Los policías se apoyaban sobre sus fusiles; uno de ellos bostezó; el pavo se volvió, asustado, hacia las cabañas.

Sir Mador, as red as a turkey cock, was making it up with Sir Pinel the poisoner, who had come back incognito.
Sir Mador, rojo como un pavo, abrazaba a sir Pinel, el envenenador, que había regresado de incógnito.

He pointed to a sharp-featured, lean figure roughly greeting another youth strutting toward him like a turkey-cock.
– Señaló a un joven esbelto de facciones angulosas que saludaba ruidosamente a otro joven al verlo acercarse ufano como un pavo real-.