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dedurar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fink noun An informer, especially one seen as untrustworthy or contemptible.
  • grass noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
  • snitch verb To inform on someone, often betraying a friend or group.
  • tattle verb To gossip or chatter, especially about other people's business.

Senses

dedurar is used for these senses in English:

  • fink (chiefly, US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on.
  • grass (transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
  • rat out (slang, derogatory, transitive) To inform authorities (about someone); to tell on (somebody).
  • snitch (slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
  • tattle (intransitive, Canada, US, pejorative) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody. [from late 15th c.]
  • tell on (usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.

fink — full definition

  1. noun An informer, especially one seen as untrustworthy or contemptible.
  2. noun A worker who crosses a picket line or helps break a strike.
  3. verb To inform on someone, especially to betray a confidence.

grass — full definition

  1. noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
  2. noun Marijuana (informal).
  3. noun British informal: an informer who reports criminals or wrongdoers to the authorities.
  4. verb British informal: to inform on someone to the police or another authority.

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