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pelapapas: potato peeler
pelapatatas: potato peeler
pelar: to peel (fruits, vegetables); to skin (an animal); to shell (nuts, shellfish); to unwrap; to pluck (a bird)
pelar el ajo: to kick the bucket, die; to work hard
pelar el gallo: kick the bucket; snuff it
pelar la pava: to flirt; to engage in courtship, especially by a window or a balcony; to gossip; to chitchat
pelasgo: Pelasgian
pelazón: poverty
pelaíta: little girl
peldaño: step, stair (single step in a staircase); step, rung (crosspiece forming a step of a ladder)
peldón: pronunciation spelling of perdón, representing Puerto Rico Spanish
pelea: fight, brawl; struggle (physical); quarrel, argument; fight, bout
pelea de barro: mud fight
pelea de gallos: cockfight
peleada: fight
peleador: combative, fighting; quarrelsome, feisty
pelear: to fight (to contend in physical conflict); to fight, to argue; to fight for, to struggle against; to mutually fight; to discord or dispute; to become enemies
pelechar: to molt/moult
pelecho: moult, shed
pelecoide: pelecoid
peledeísta: supporting the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana
peledeísta: a supporter of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana
pelejo: sloth (the mammal)
pelela: potty (child's urinal)
pelele: wimp; rompers (one-piece garment for babies); dummy (stupid person); puppet, tool
pelendones: Pellendones
pelete: intense cold
peletero: furrier
peletería: the fur industry; a fur shop
peletizar: to pelletize
peleón: scrappy, quarrelsome
peleón: bully
peli: clipping of película, movie (US, Canada), film
peliagudo: difficult, tricky
peliazul: blue-haired
peliblanco: white-haired
pelicorto: shorthaired
pelicosaurio: pelycosaur
pelicular: pellicular
peliculero: fantasizing, overly imaginative; filmic, cinematic (related to movies); cinephile, filmaholic (having a love of films or the cinema)
peliculero: filmmaker, cineast; daydreamer
peliculón: great movie / film
pelignos: Paeligni
peligrar: to be in danger
peligro: peril, danger
peligro amarillo: yellow peril
peligrosamente: dangerously
peligrosidad: dangerousness, perilousness, riskiness, hazardousness; peril, danger
peligroso: perilous, dangerous
pelilargo: long-haired
pelillo: diminutive of pelo; petty concern, triviality
pelillos a la mar: let bygones be bygones
pelinegro: black-haired
peliparado: frizzy-haired
pelirrojo: redheaded
pelirrojo: redhead
pelirrosa: pink-haired
pelita: pelite
peliverde: green-haired
pella: lump, dollop, mass