Noun: guagua
Gender: f
mf
Hyphenation: gua‧gua
| Singular m | guagua |
| Singular f | guagua |
| Plural m | guaguas |
| Plural f | guaguas |
Sample Sentences
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[Los duendes] son pequeñitos y visten como las guaguas, con el mismo traje que llevaban en vida. ([Duendes] are tiny and dress like babies, in the same clothes they wore in life.) [1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 53:]
Nouns inflected like guagua
egocentrista,
cervantista,
baloncestista,
minifundista,
seremi,
setita,
pactante,
semita,
senufo,
senpai,
pactista,
selfie,
violinista,
militante,
salame,
script,
epigramatista,
sonetista,
urbanista,
sonyer, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally Cuban. Possibly derived from English wagon, or from the expression de guagua meaning "for free", since buses in Cuba were very cheap at that time. According to Canarian folk etymology, imitative of the buses' honking or wheel suspension. See: English Nouns '
wagon'.
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