turulato
Spanish
Etymology
Of imitative origin, similar to aturullar (“to stun”), tarumba (“dazed”), tuturuto (“dazed”), entuturutar (“to deceive”), turuleco (“dumb, foolish”), tuturunto (“dumb, foolish”).
Adjective
turulato (feminine turulata, masculine plural turulatos, feminine plural turulatas)
- stunned, astonished
- 2015 September 11, “La pésima educación”, in El País[1]:
- Esto explica las ideas turulatas que a veces tenemos sobre la democracia.
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Further reading
- “turulato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- “turulato”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010