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pellas
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This seems to be an expression. A Spanish woman decsribing her father's childhood in San Sebastian in the 1930s:
Según contaba, los días que había oleaje hacía “pellas” y no iba al colegio.
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Según contaba, los días que había oleaje hacía “pellas” y no iba al colegio.
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Proposed translations
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| 5 +3 | play hooky |
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Apr 5, 2024 23:12: Wendy Gosselin Created KOG entry
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Spanish term (edited):
hacer pellas
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play hooky
Or play truant in UK English.
http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacer_pellas
http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacer_pellas
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Tomasso
: Play hooky, seems grade school, later we CUT CLASSES, Skipped School, (west coast usa)
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neilmac
: In Glasgow we called it "dogging school", nothing to do with other doggings....
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Skipping or dodging school to me in Croydon. And despite having been in the US for twenty years, I only learned today that 'playing truant' is British.
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En Cataluña se dice hacer campana; en Extremadura, hacer monta o hacer capona; en Galicia, latar; en Canarias, hacerse o pegarse la huyona; en Murcia, fumarse la clase; en Andalucía, hacerse una piarda; y en Madrid y centro de España, hacer pellas.