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cochinada

Translation

s.f.
(col.) (faena)
dirty trick
hacer una cochinada a alguien
to play a dirty trick on somebody
(col.) (suciedad)
filthy thing
¡Esto es una verdadera cochinada!
This is such a filthy thing!
(col.) (imagen indecente)
filth uncount
Mi madre se queja de las cochinadas que se ven en la tele
My mother complains about the filth you can see on TV
hacer cochinadas
to do rude things
decir cochinadas
to use filthy language
(comentario)
filthy remark
(Definition of cochinada s.f. from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact Español-Inglés © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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