Cabezonada

[poli]

I am having a problem finding a definition for this word.
... also corazonada

[irmamar]

Un cabezón o cabezota es una persona muy terca (pigheaded, I think). Una cabezonada es una acción propia de un cabezota, una terquedad.

Una corazonada es como un presentimiento. En inglés creo que hunch.

[hermit]

"cabezonada" = "obstinacy", or "stubbornness".

"corazonada" = several meanings to my experience: can be "courage",
"impulse", "premonition", "foreboding", and one that i've read but not heard used, "entrails" ( here i would use "entranas" con tilde.).



hey poli - for good, comprehensive definitions, i depended on 'Cassell's
English-Spanish Spanish-English Dictionary' throughout my B.A. studies;
it always served well.

irmamar - se me habia olvidado "terca" - los estudios de la segunda lengua
son trabajo de toda la vida, ?verdad?

hermit

[irmamar]

Sí, toda la vida

¿Entrañas por corazonada? No sé, no sé...

Al ver a la gente sufriendo tanto se me remueven las entrañas de ira y de dolor.

Tuve una corazonada: sabía que ibas a venir

[poli]

Thanks Irmamar and Hermit. Corazonada is a good word to know. I alway used the verb presentir to express. Now, thanks to you, I found another route.

[irmamar]

You're welcome (de res )

[hermit]

irmamar - de acuerdo con tus dudas, por lo visto (mas bien lo leido)
se entiende asi solamente en algunas partes.

hermit

[irmamar]

hermit, could you give me some example?

[ROBINDESBOIS]

MAdrid´s mayor feels it in his bones ( tines una corazonada) Obama also feels it in his bones For Chicago.

also testarudez

[poli]

I have always used testaduro. Now I see that it's not a word in Spanish (maybe I invented it, or maybe it's an Italian-American expression that Latinos understand).

[hermit]

irmamar - i should have made it clearer - "corazonada" in english can be
a "gut feeling", hence the concept of "entranas" is used figuratively to
convey "una reaccion o percepcion visceral".

hermit

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Testarudo is fine.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by hermit

irmamar - i should have made it clearer - "corazonada" in english can be
a "gut feeling", hence the concept of "entranas" is used figuratively to
convey "una reaccion o percepcion visceral".

hermit

But heart is much more elegant than gut

[hermit]

yes, irmamar - references to the heart are much nicer than the gut,
that's for sure!

hermit