calderilla
Spanish
Noun
calderilla f (plural calderillas)
- small change (coins of little value)
- 1893, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Guapeza valenciana:
- hacía sus ensayos de guapeza yendo a pedir alguna peseta en los billares o timbas de calderilla.
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- (US) peanuts, (UK) shrapnel (A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary))
- Synonym: chatarra
Further reading
- “calderilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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