Translation for "pulla" to english

Pulla

noun

• taunt
• jibe
• thrust

Translation examples

taunt noun

El autor sostiene que el verdugo se mofaba de él con pullas acerca de su próxima ejecución y de cuánto tardaría en morir.
The author claims that he was taunted by the executioner about the impending execution and about how long it would take for him to die.

a) Las autoridades locales de la aldea de Htan Maniang empezaron de inmediato a hostigar intensamente a Su Su Nway, incluso lanzándole pullas en público, en un intento de hacerla abandonar la aldea.
(a) The local authorities of Htan Maniang Village soon began to severely harass Su Su Nway, including through public taunts, in an attempt to make her flee the village.

La acusada también fue objeto de hostigamiento y pullas por parte de las autoridades durante el juicio.
The accused also faced harassment and taunts from the authorities during the trial.

Te puedes ahorrar los sarcasmos y las pullas.
This conversation can do without your taunts and sarcastic remarks.

Vale, bien, entonces perdona esta pulla de patio de recreo, pero si lo amas tanto, ¿porqué no te casas con él? ¿De que estás hablando?
Okay, well, then forgive the schoolyard quality of this taunt, but if you love him so much, why don't you marry him?

No nos sirven de mucho los sarcasmos y las pullas.
- We can do without your taunts.

¿Eran una figura retórica o una pulla?
Was it a figure of speech, or a taunt?

Podía pasar sin las pullas.
He could do without the taunts.

No eran preguntas, eran pullas, insultos.
These weren’t questions, they were taunts, insults.

Clive respondió a la pulla con otra:
Clive answered the taunt with one of his own.

Le dolían profundamente las pullas de Griselda.
Griselda’s taunts had cut him sharply.

Dejó que los romanos les lanzaran pullas.
He let the Romans hurl taunts at them.

Esta vez Brutus no reaccionó a su pulla.
This time, Brutus didn't react to his taunt.

Cato hizo caso omiso de la pulla. —La paz.
Cato ignored the taunt. ‘Peace.

Gorlist hizo caso omiso de las pullas del clérigo.
Gorlist ignored the cleric’s taunts.

Es la novena entrada, no hago caso de sus pullas.
It is the ninth inning, and I ignore his taunts.

jibe noun

Ella ignoró su pulla.
She ignored his jibe.

Druss no hizo caso de la pulla.
Druss ignored the jibe.

A usted, a sus misterios y a sus pullas.
You, your mysteries, and your jibes.

Reprimí una sonrisa ante el sarcasmo de su pulla;
I almost smiled at this sardonic jibe;

El Sabio Letón no hizo caso de la pulla.
The Latvian Savant ignored my jibe.

Bird simuló no haber oído la pulla.
Bird pretended not to have heard the jibe.

También por el lado masculino, estoy agobiado por las pullas.
I was also assailed by a barrage of jibes from the male quarter.

—murmuró Cathil, soltando la enésima pulla de la noche.
murmured Cathil, at least the tenth jibe of the evening.

John, un acérrimo republicano, ignoró la pulla de Barney.
John, a hawkish Republican, ignored Barney’s jibe.

El alemán no había dedicado más que malas caras y pullas a Collop;
The German had had nothing but sneers and jibes for Collop.

thrust noun

Olvide su sarcasmo y sus hábiles pullas.
Let us dispense with sarcasm and clever thrusts.

La pulla verbal dio en el blanco. —¿Qué has dicho?
The verbal thrust stung. “What did you say?”

Alguien conocido significaba una amiguita, una pulla inevitable, tenía que hacerlo, era más fuerte que ella. —No lo sé.
Friend meant girlfriend, an unavoidable thrust, she had to do it, couldn’t help it. “I don’t know.”

Tratándose de una universidad para mujeres, era una pulla que hasta Win apreciaba de manera acerba y masoquista, como si aún estuviera del lado de ellos y se observara a sí mismo desde lejos.
In a college for women, this was a broad comic thrust even Win could appreciate in a bitter and self-punishing way, as if he were still on their side, watching himself from a distance.

There were rivulets of blood on the earth, droplets spraying in the air, and he was jerking and choking, blood bubbling at his ripped throat, and I tried to pull the eel spear back, but the barbs on the points were Bernard Cornwell The Last Kingdom caught in his gullet, so I ripped the war spear from his belly and tried to stop him jerking by thrusting it down hard into his chest, but it only glanced off his ribs.
There were rivulets of blood on the earth, droplets spraying in the air, and he was jerking and choking, blood bubbling at his ripped throat, and I tried to pull the eel spear back, but the barbs on the points were caught in his gullet, so I ripped the war spear from his belly and tried to stop him jerking by thrusting it down hard into his chest, but it only glanced off his ribs.