Noun: cara de can
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cara de can |
| Plural f | caras de can |
Sample Sentences
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Marzo marzal, pola mañá cara de rosa e pola tarde cara de can (March March: at the morning a rose face, at the evening a dog face)
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[…] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte. ([…] employees don't let him oppress them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.) [1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:]
Etymology
Literally "face of dog", "dogface"
Translations