empalagar
Language: Spanish · [empalaˈɣaɾ] · Pronunciation: em-pah-lah-GAR
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Meaning
to be too sweet to finish — a pudding, or a person
The story
The RAE gives it two lives: food too sweet to get through, and a person too sweet to bear. Spanish uses the second freely, so a suitor who sends nine messages a day is empalagoso. English keeps the job for cloying, a word more often written than said.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Spanish
- Which feeling does it carry?
- Slightly queasy from too much richness
- Where would you hear it?
- A third slice of chocolate cake
- What does it mean?
- To turn the stomach with sweetness
How it went
Round two, feeling, was where most points went.
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