Gotera

[DailyWord]

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for June 3, 2008

gotera - feminine noun (la), drip, leak. Look up gotera in the dictionary

Una gotera en la regadera puede desperdiciar miles de litros de agua al año.
A leaky shower can waste thousands of liters of water every year.

[poli]

An amusing use of Spanglish I have heard is:
El rufo tiene un liqueo. (el techo tiene una gotera)

[Iris]

I thought regadera meant watering can, I had never heard it used as ducha. Live and learn.

[Elaina]

I have heard

gotera = dropper

Es posible?

Elaina

[Iris]

A dropper is called un cuentagotas over here. Nice word, isn't it?

[Elaina]

hmmm

¡Es la única forma de contar gotas!! Creo que tiene sentido la palabra aunque yo nunca la había escuchado!

Elaina

[Escarabajo]

Originally Posted by Iris

A dropper is called un cuentagotas over here. Nice word, isn't it?

Me recuerda escalofrio, parabrisas, pasamontañas, paraguas . . . me encantan estas palabras. Me parecen los kennings de sagas alemanes.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Iris

I thought regadera meant watering can, I had never heard it used as ducha. Live and learn.

Regadera is shower in Mexico at least. I don't know about any of the other countries in the Americas.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

An amusing use of Spanglish I have heard is:
El rufo tiene un liqueo. (el techo tiene una gotera)

Also, El rufo está liqueando.

Otra (para que los españoles adivinen a qué se refiere): La loca está rota.

[Rusty]

A shower es la ducha en Centroamérica. At least we have the same word for a leak in the roof.

There are other leaks:
agujero (en un contenedor)
escape (de gas o líquido)
filtración (de información)

Gotero and cuentagotas are the words for a dropper.