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English translation: play hooky

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Spanish term or phrase:pellas
English translation:play hooky
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

20:04 Apr 4, 2024
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: pellas
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.

Thanks
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 04:57
play hooky
Explanation:
Or play truant in UK English.
http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacer_pellas
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philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
more than perfect!! thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +3play hooky
philgoddard
Summary of reference entries provided
ver
liz askew

Discussion entries: 5





  

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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
hacer pellas
play hooky


Explanation:
Or play truant in UK English.
http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacer_pellas

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52
Grading comment
more than perfect!! thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tomasso: Play hooky, seems grade school, later we CUT CLASSES, Skipped School, (west coast usa)
1 hr
  -> Thanks.
agree  neilmac: In Glasgow we called it "dogging school", nothing to do with other doggings....
9 hrs
  -> 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.
agree  Michelle Rodriguez
11 days
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16 hrs
Reference: ver

Reference information:
https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=pl...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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