pifia
See also: pifiá
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Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
Back-formation from pifiar.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈpifja/ [ˈpi.fja]
- Rhymes: -ifja
- Syllabification: pi‧fia
Noun
    
pifia f (plural pifias)
- (colloquial) small flaw, defect
- Synonyms: defecto, desperfecto, falta
 -  1895, José María de Pereda, Peñas arriba:- cuanto más me empeño en enmendar las pifias, peor lo pongo.- the more I try to put the defects right, the worse I make it.
 
 
 
- (colloquial) mistake, fault, error
-  1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:- Reunirse en Atocha, para subir luego a dar el ataque a las tropas monárquicas, o esperarlas en aquella hondonada, parecíame a mí una gran pifia. Pero no me atreví a contradecir a los militares.- Joining up in Atocha, then going on to attack the pro-monarchic troops, or waiting for them in that depression, seemed to me a great error. But I dared not contradict the soldiers.
 
 
-  2009, Iñigo Vallejo-Nagera, Santa Locura:- Ya la fastidió al perder la fórmula de los santos espíritus y ahora no puede permitirse otra pifia del mismo estilo.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
 - cometer una pifia ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
 
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Related terms
    
Descendants
    
- → Portuguese: pífio
Verb
    
pifia
- inflection of pifiar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
 
Further reading
    
- “pifia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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