Polyglot Dictionary

panaca

/paˈnakɐ/

o noun C1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
os panacas

Meaning

  1. fool

    • Que panaca!

      What a fool!

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

cretino

cretino is more harsh or insulting, an idiot; panaca is more colloquial or mild teasing, a silly person — both mean "fool."

Similar in other languages

German

Narr

Narr is the German word for the same thing — both mean "fool."

Spanish

botarate

botarate is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "fool."

Practice

1 What does panaca mean?

2 Fill the gap: Que ___!

3 Which fingerprint chart matches panaca?

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