alcaguete — meaning in English
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English meaning
- grass noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
- tattletale noun (informal, chiefly North American) Someone, especially a child, who reports on other people's misbehaviour, often just to get them in trouble.
Senses
alcaguete is used for these senses in English:
- grass (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- tattletale One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.
grass — full definition
- noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
- noun Marijuana (informal).
- noun British informal: an informer who reports criminals or wrongdoers to the authorities.
- verb British informal: to inform on someone to the police or another authority.
tattletale — full definition
- noun (informal, chiefly North American) Someone, especially a child, who reports on other people's misbehaviour, often just to get them in trouble.
- verb To tell on someone; to reveal wrongdoing to an authority figure.