Noun: bandallo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bandallo |
| Plural m | bandallos |
Sample Sentences
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Xâ sabes que â miña casa
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he moi levada o bandallo
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da tia Goras de Rabál,
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aquela gran zalameira,
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embolvedora è embusteira,
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que vive por noso mal: (You know that my house
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has become quite a calamity
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because of uncle Goras of Rabal,
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that great sweat talker,
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scheming and liar
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that lives to cause us harm) [1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:]
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Máis que digan que este mundo
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Foi e será un bandallo,
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Decote detras da porta
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Non hemos de ver o trasno; (No matter how much they say that this world
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was and is a calamity,
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Not always are we to see
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the demon behind the door) [1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:]
Nouns inflected like bandallo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps from banda + -allo; compare Portuguese bandalho. Or either related to Spanish andrajo. See: Portuguese Nouns '
bandalho', Spanish Nouns '
andrajo'.
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