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DailyWord December 30, 2009 09:08 PM

Bacalao
 
This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for December 29, 2009

bacalao (masculine noun (el)) — cod. Look up bacalao in the dictionary

En esta Navidad, comimos bacalao frito.
This Christmas, we ate fried cod.

Mi papá siempre me daba una cucharada de aceite de hígado de bacalao en las noches.
Mi dad always gave me a spoonful of cod liver oil at night.

poli December 30, 2009 10:10 PM

No estoy completamente seguro pero pienso que bacalao es el pescado
salado y secado. Cuando es fresco tiene otro nombre---abadejo. Cuando
está bien preparado, el bacalao es muy sabroso. Me gustan albóndigas de
bacalao y los franceses preparen algo llamado brandade o brandada en
español que tambien me gusta.

:warning:Bacalao es una palabra muy despectiva para una mujer desagradable entre hispanos caribeños por lo menos e imagino en otras partes del mundo hispano tambien.

irmamar December 31, 2009 12:23 AM

Abadejo means bacalao, but bacalao is not only the fish dried and salted, but also when it's alive. We say "bacalao fresco" if it's not dried and salted. Nobody here says "abajejo" (sólo en los crucigramas :D ).

Here that music techno and insistent is called "bacalao".

:)

pjt33 December 31, 2009 01:35 AM

Cortar el bacalao :approx: To wear the trousers.

poli December 31, 2009 05:44 AM

Hmm...cortar el bacalao.

Thanks Irmamar.
Locally (I mean north-east coast United States) we differentiate codfish
from baccalá (the Italian word for bacalao.) This may not be true in the rest of the country. I was under the impression that in Spain they differentiate it as well. Now I know better. I know that in Latin America bacalao and bacalao fresco are the correct words


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