Spanish Word of the Day: pletórico

[Sam Wilson]

LiCR,

pletórico (adj) 📢 - plethoric, with abundance

pletórico

ADJECTIVE

estar pletórico [jugador] to be on top form

pletórico de [fuerza, energía, entusiasmo] full of ⧫ bursting with; [vida, ilusiones] full of; [felicidad, salud] bursting with

• El equipo está pletórico de moral.
  The team’s morale couldn’t be higher.
  
  
• Tenía los ojos azules y el pelo oscuro, un cuerpo pletórico, y su risa era siempre fuerte y vibrante.
  She had blue eyes and dark hair, a full body, and her laugh was always loud and vibrant.
  
  
• El gatito estaba pletórico de curiosidad.
  The kitten was bursting with curiosity.

It is more common to hear "lleno de" (full of) around these parts.

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Sam

[Joe Harrison]

Dam, Sam.  Here I am Sam, ostensibly an English teacher, trying to learn Spanish.  And you're teaching me an English word I didn't know.  I'm ashamed of myself.  Plethoric.  Didn't know it.  Pathetic.  🤔  I already knew plethora (a huge amount), but I didn't make the connection...joe, eating a plethoric quantity of humble pie.

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[Sam Wilson]

Hi Joe,

Jejeje... I had a plethora of doubts about that one, but within my obviously non-plethoric dictionary, I couldn't find a suitable 'k' word to flush out our budding index of now 51 Spanish Word of the Day posts/definitions:

Index to the Spanish Word of the Day posts:

aderezo - salad dressing	fúnebre - related to the dead or funeral
agujero negro - black hole	gorjeo - chirping of a bird
amanecer - daybreak	heladería - ice cream parlor
año bisiesto - leap year	herida - wound, injury or insult
apocado - timid	invernadero - greenhouse
apocar - to make smaller	jupa - head or noggin
atardecer - dusk or late afternoon	lanzamiento - launch
aterrizaje - landing	logro - achievement
brotar - to sprout, to break out	madrugada - early morning
brote - outbreak or rash	manada - herd or pack
carroza - a parade float	mentimos- form of mentir (to lie)
cazatesoros - treasure hunter	pletórico - plethoric, with abundance
choza - hut, shack	propuesta - proposal
cólera - anger, cholera	rebotica - back room
comejenes - termite	reposo - an instance of relaxing
derretirse - to melt	resaca - undertow, hangover
desafío - a challenge or duel	rezongar - to grumble or scold
echar - to throw or to put, etc.	sabelotodo - a know-it-all
embaucador - trickster, swindler	sandez - foolishness
embaucar - to trick	soplar - to blow
espantamoscas - fly swatter	supervivencia - survival
espantapájaros - scarecrow	titilar - to twinkle
espantar - to frighten	tobillo - ankle
espanto - a fright or ghost	vela - candle, wake, (nautical) sail
especia – spice	zorra - vixen, loose woman
especie - species

Coincidentally, while reading your post I was actually eating some pie -- another one of my wife's pie experiments.  She doesn't like following a recipe, but then she gets frustrated when the pies don't come out the same all the time.  In a great show of spousal support, I just shake my head and quickly eat the pie experiments so we can reuse the molde for another try...  "Pobrecita amorsote... no te preocupes, mi amor, podemos intentarlo de nuevo."  ;-)

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Sam

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[Joe Harrison]

Sam:  Well, I don't recommend that wifey bake Humble Pie like I had to eat anoche; it tastes awful.....As to "k" words, how about kilometro or kilogramo, allowing you to launch into an explanation of metric vs the American/British/Burmese/Liberian system????   For "y" I'd appreciate an explanation of the many ways the word ya can be interpreted in CR.   As to "w" and "x " it's slim pickens indeed.  (I knew ole Slim, and his daughter Easy, man, she was somethin' else.  Wow!!) 

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