Translation for "tuerto" to english

Tuerto

adjective

• blind in one eye
• one-eyed

Translation examples

blind in one eye adjective

No, no moriré tuerto.
No, I wouldn’t die blind in one eye.

Su hijo está tullido, tuerto.
His son is maimed, blinded in one eye.

El negro era tuerto y tenía una pierna más corta que la otra.
The Negro was blind in one eye and one leg was shorter than the other;

Ahora lo entiendo. El Turco es tuerto. Se le desprendió la retina.
That explains it. The Turk is blind in one eye. Detached retina.

Escogimos un perro con una cicatriz en equis en el lomo. Parecía tuerto.
We picked a dog with an X-shaped scar on its back. It looked blind in one eye.

El que sólo visita África una vez muere tuerto. —No lo olvidaré.
The man who sees Africa only once in his life will die blind in one eye.’ ‘I won’t forget.’

mayor, pero en el buen sentido, guapa, con arrugas y una sonrisa incansable—. Era tuerto. —¿Qué pasó?
old, but in a good way—handsome, lined, smiling with endurance. “He was blind in one eye.” “What happened?”

Se trataba de un tuerto con la cara cruzada de viejas cicatrices y la barba como cerdas duras.
The man had been blind in one eye, his face a mass of old scars and stubbly bristle.

A los que aún eran claros y despejados, cuando Tomás no me había obligado a ver el mundo mediado y con ojo tuerto.
A time that was clear and unclouded, before Tomás had obliged me to see the world cut in two and as though blind in one eye.

one-eyed adjective

—Berruguete, el tuerto.
“One-eyed Berruguete.”

Él por lo menos era tuerto.
He at least was one-eyed.

—preguntó el bandido tuerto.
the one-eyed bandit demanded.

Incluso Karnak el Tuerto.
Even Karnak the One-Eyed.

¡Cómo tira ese tuerto!
How that one-eyed bastard could shoot!

Soy peor que Bob el tuerto.
I’m worse than One-Eyed Bob.