metepatas

Spanish

Etymology

meter +‎ pata. From the phrase meter la pata

Noun

metepatas m or f (plural metepatas)

screw-up; buffoon
- 2016 September 22, “Texto íntegro del pregón de Javier Pérez Andújar”, in El Periódico‎:
  El Gordito Relleno representaba al buenazo metepatas.
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Related terms

metedura de pata

Further reading

“metepatas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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