Translation for "chancearse" to english

Chancearse

verb

• joke
• jest
• fool around

Translation examples

joke verb

—Me parece que no es esta ocasión de chancearse.
- I think this is not the time to joke.

Es peligroso chancearse de los miembros de la gaida de los Hoolyganis.
It is dangerous to joke with the members of the Hoolygani gaida .

—dijo «Petifoque», siempre dispuesto a chancearse del viejo bretón.
said Little Flocco, who was always in the mood to joke and torment his old Breton.

—O el tipo es un loco escapado —exclamo Hermoso con disgusto— o se trata de uno de esos magnates excéntricos a quienes deleita chancearse. Esto es una broma.
“He’s either an escaped lunatic,” said Beau with disgust, “or else he’s one of those eccentric tycoons you read about who like to play. This is a joke.

Mientras aquellos diablos de hombres, en medio de tantos riesgos, se complacían en chancearse como si estuviesen en la tolda de una fragata en puerto, los mandanos se apresuraron a tripular sus barcas, que rodeaban el desmantelado bergantín.
While those devils of men, in the midst of so many risks, took pleasure in joking as if they were on the deck of a frigate in port, the Mandans hurried down into the dinghies that surrounded the ship.

Es sólo que lo acometen tantos instintos animales que no deja en todo el día, ni en toda la noche, de hacer ruido, de bromear y chancearse desde la primera a la última guardia, y la menor gota de brandy o ron se le sube a la cabeza, por lo que acto seguido monta una escena.
Only he has such a flow of animal spirits that he is obliged to make a vast brutish noise all day and night – practical jokes every day of the week – and the least drop of brandy or rum goes straight to his head, and then we have a scene.

jest verb

Garnache prefirió chancearse a decir francamente que lo que le había hecho retroceder a las pocas horas de emprender su viaje hacia París era sólo su inmenso orgullo y su incapacidad para hacer frente al ridículo que había de cubrirle cuando confesase en el Luxemburgo el fracaso de su empresa.
He jested, sooner than enlighten her that it was his egregious pride had fetched him back when he was but a few hours upon his journey Pariswards, his inability to brook the ridicule that would be his when he announced at the Luxembourg that failure had attended him.