Spanish–English dictionary

pez

(archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

pez de colores

A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

pez de oro

A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

pez dorado

A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

pez emperador

A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.

pez espada

A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.

pez gato

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

pez globo

Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened.

pez gordo

(idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

pez mantequilla

A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.

pez mujer

Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of the genus Trichechus, found in tropical regions.

pez plata

Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially a European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).

pez rojo

A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

pez vela

Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.

pez-bruja

Any of several primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.

pezón

(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. [from 16th c.]

pezuña

The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.

phishing

The act of circumventing security with an alias.

pho

A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.

photoshopear

(trademark, media, computing, usually, transitive) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).

piada

The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

piadoso

Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.

Piamonte

An administrative region in the north of Italy.

pianissimo

(music) Indicating that the piece is to be played very softly.

pianista

(musician) A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.

piano

(music) Softly, as a dynamic in a piece of music. [from 17th c.]

piano vertical

(informal) Short for upright piano

piar

(intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.

piba

(US, colloquial, slang, sometimes, dated) A woman or girl.

pibe

(slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).

pibón

(by extension) Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.

pica

(pathology, usually, uncountable) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.

picada

(often, in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.

picadillo

Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. corn-beef hash

picadillo (🇨🇺 Cuba)

(cooking) An emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.

picado

Cut or diced into small pieces.

picador

(bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.

picadura

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

picaflor

Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

picajón

(idiomatic) Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.

picajoso

(idiomatic) Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.

picamaderos

Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.

picana

A stick designed to goad cows, steers, and similar animals in order to prompt them to move in a desired direction, now usually electrified to administer a stimulating shock to the animal.

picante

Obscene or scurrilous.

picapleitos

An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.

picaporte

(architectural elements) A knocker mounted on a door.

picar

(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

picar el interés

(dated, _, slang) To understand.

picar el ojo

(transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)

picar la cresta

To incite or provoke.

picardía

Skill in deception, slyness.

picardías

Lacking coverage over the area of the crotch.

pícaro

Knowing, clever, mischievous.

picarse

To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.

picas

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

Picasso

A surname.

picaza

One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.

picazón

A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.

picchar

To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.

picchear

To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.

pícea

Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.

piceo

(obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to pitch; having a quality like pitch.

pichar

(transitive, or, intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

pichear

(transitive, or, intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

pichel

A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. Originally used for carrying water

pícher

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

pichicatear

(idiomatic) To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.

pichichi

(football) A person who scores a goal, or scores goals

pichicho

A mammal of the family Canidae:

pichincha

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds themself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds themself to receive the property and pay the consideration.

pichirruchi

Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

pichón

A young bird.

pichona

(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

pícnic

The meal eaten at such a gathering.

pico

(zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

pico de loro

A type of pliers used by plumbers that can be quickly changed in size and is primarily used for tightening nuts on water pipes.

pico de oro

(idiomatic) The ability to talk readily, glibly, and convincingly, especially on trivial matters and small talk.

pico-

In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10−12 (short scale trillionth or long scale billionth).

picolé

(chiefly, _, US, Canada) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.

picoleto

(British, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.

pícolo

A piccolo flute A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

picón

(slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.

picor

(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.

picoso

(of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.

picota

(nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down

picotear

(intransitive) To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.

pictograma

A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.

pictórico

Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following the conventions of pictorialism.

picudo

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

picueto

Shocked and speechless.

pidgin

(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.

pídola

(games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.

pIE

(linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.

pie de cabra

An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.

pie de guerra

(figurative) A course of action that leads to battle or hostility.

pie de página

(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

Pie Grande

(cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

piecero

An upright board across the foot of a bedstead.

piedad

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

piedra

A mixture of baking soda and cocaine in solid form that is smoked in a pipe as a narcotic.

piedra angular

A stone forming the base at the corner of a building.

piedra de afilar

A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.

piedra de amolar

A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.

piedra de luna

(mineral) A translucent gemstone, an orthoclase feldspar, that has a pearly lustre.

piedra de toque

A stone used to verify the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them in order to leave a visible trace.

piedra molar

A large round stone used for grinding grain.

piedra pómez

A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.

piedra preciosa

A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.

piel

(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached

piel de cerdo

Leather made from the skin of a pig.

piel de oveja

(uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.

piel de serpiente

The skin of a snake

piélago

The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

pienso

Material, of an animal or most often vegetable origin, prepared (especially industrially) as feed for domestic or farm animals.

pierna

In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.

pierrecto

The vertical measurement, top to bottom, for example for clearance under a bridge.

piesllo

A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.

pieza

A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

pieza de artillería

(military) An artillery gun.

pífano

A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

pifia

(dated, _, slang, especially, baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake. [from early 20th c.]

pifostio

A noisy argument.

pigmentación

Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.

pigmentar

(transitive) To add color or pigment to something.

pigmeo

(mythology, fantasy) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually smaller than dwarves and more focused on engineering than mining.

pignorar

(transitive) To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.

pigua fluvial

Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.

pijama

Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.

pijama con los pies

A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.

pijamada

The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.

pijamas

Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.

pijo

(informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]

Pikachu

(video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.

pila

(electrical, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.

pilaf

A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.

pilar

A chief support.

pilar (de puente)

A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.

pilastra

(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

pilates

A physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates.

Pilato

(biblical character) Pontius Pilate, the man who, according to the Bible, ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.

pilcha

A single item of clothing.

píldora

(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.

píldora anticonceptiva

(informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

píleo

The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

pileta

A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.

piletazo

(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

piliar

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

pilila

(hypocoristic, slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, South Africa) the penis.

pilishne

Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

pilla pilla

(slang) A person's name.