Espinilla

Espinilla
 

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for February 6, 2009

espinilla - feminine noun (la) - shin, shinbone. Look up espinilla in the dictionary

¿Por qué un golpe en la espinilla duele tanto?
Why does it hurt so much when you hit your shin?

Caution:
espinilla (bone): shin, shinbone
espinilla (face): blackhead
chico con espinillas:pimply
Saludos :D

Thanks for that sosia, I missed it.

Hola Sosia,

In Spain, espinilla is blackhead?

In Chile espinilla is a zit and blackhead is "barro" or "punto negro" :-)

In Mexico:

zit, pimple = barro, barrito
blackhead = punto negro

Pimple was the other word i forgot to write. However, I did not know that barrito was the name for pimple in Mexico...

:-)

Sorry. :( My bad english missed me looking for the proper english word. Chileno is right.

espinilla: zit
blackhead: puntos negros
Saludos :D

Hey, don't be sorry. :-)

I love it, because this way not only improves our English but it also helps our Spanish. :-)

Also the word Espinilla is named as grano in Mexico, but I don't if am in the correct the word grano would be translate as grain?

Yes, grain is one of many meanings of grano.

grano (defecto en la cara) - zit, pimple
grano (trigo, avena etc) - grain