Cartón

[DailyWord]

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word (http://daily.tomisimo.org/) for May 3, 2008

cartón -masculine noun (el), cardboard, carton. Look up cartón in the dictionary (http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/carton)

Tráeme la caja de cartón donde guardamos los cartones apachurrados de leche.
Bring me the cardboard box where we keep the flattened milk cartons.

[Iris]

I say espachurrados...:)

[Tomisimo]

Interesante, ¿no se entiende el verbo apachurrar en España?

[Iris]

Sí, yo lo entiendo, pero no lo uso. De hecho pensaba que era incorrecto.

[Tomisimo]

Hmmm, acabo de preguntar bien y en Mexico usan sólo apachurrar y no espachurrar.

En el DRAE, ambos-- apachurrar y espachurrar-- son variantes de despachurrar

[Iris]

If anybody had told me despachurrar was a real word I would have thought they were joking. I learn something new everyday.

[Tomisimo]

Me too. I never knew espachurrar and despachurrar even existed.