Adjective: malcabido
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | malcabido |
| Singular f. | malcabida |
| Plural m. | malcabidos |
| Plural f. | malcabidas |
Sample Sentences
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(two persons almost bump into one another) "Olla que somos malcabidos!" ("Aren't we clumsy/stubborn?")
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a situación tristísima e máis que lamentábel da súa nai, enferma, sin recursos e, para maor desgracia, de xenio tan atufado, enrenico e mal cabido, que naide se ladaba con ela (the very sad and lamentable position of her mother, sick, resourceless and, adding insult to injury, having such a haughty, rude and misfit temper, that none got along with her) [1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 170:]
Adjectives inflected like malcabido
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From mal (“ill, badly”) + cabido (“fit”). Approximately, ill-fitting.
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