biggest lip

Spanish translation: ....,que le solían ser los más descarados

10:26 Sep 27, 2010
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: biggest lip
Buenos días a todos. A ver si alguien me puede echar una mano con la expresión con la que finaliza la siguiente oración, estoy un poco perdida:

"...even with his hair in that long braid, nobody razzed him at the construction site -not even the meathead roofers who gave the biggest lip".

Muchas gracias de antemano.
Eva Carballeira
Spain
Local time: 09:37
Spanish translation:....,que le solían ser los más descarados
Explanation:
Lip = Cheek, o Descaro.
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Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:37
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1que soltaban las mayores impertinencias/insolencias >> insolentes/impertinentes
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
3 +1....,que le solían ser los más descarados
Andrew Bramhall
4los que más insultos lanzaban
Jenny Westwell
4(que eran) los más matones/agresivos/provocadores
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
4que eran los mas burlones, groseros, pelados, bocones, boca floja, habladores
LAVL4
3(que eran) los más latosos/desfachatados
Christine Walsh
3discutir/el que más discutía, contradecía
Cristina Fernández
3los más bocones/bocazas
Eileen Banks


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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
que soltaban las mayores impertinencias/insolencias >> insolentes/impertinentes


Explanation:
Saludos

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Note added at 24 minutos (2010-09-27 10:51:32 GMT)
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también: improperios

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Note added at 28 minutos (2010-09-27 10:54:45 GMT)
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lip in Spanish - dictionary and translationlip. Dictionary terms for lip in Español, Español definition for lip, Thesaurus and Translations of ... lip. s. labio; reborde; insolencia, impertinencia ...
www.babylon.com/definition/lip/Spanish - En caché - Similares


lip - traducción de español - Diccionario Inglés-Español de Word Magic... insolencia, impertinencia; Sinónimos: insolence, shamelessness, effrontery, impudence, ... gangrenous or ulcerous sore mainly in the mouth and lips ...
www.wordmagicsoft.com/diccionario/en-es/lip.php - En caché

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Local time: 09:37
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 212

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agree  Noni Gilbert Riley
1 hr
  -> Muchísimas gracias
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
....,que le solían ser los más descarados


Explanation:
Lip = Cheek, o Descaro.

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Natalia Pedrosa (X)
3 hrs
  -> Gracias, Natalia
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(que eran) los más latosos/desfachatados


Explanation:
Intentando mantener el estilo informal

Christine Walsh
Local time: 04:37
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
los que más insultos lanzaban


Explanation:
Según el contexto, creo que esto te puede valer. En las obras los hombres suelen ser muy machistas, tomándole el pelo a cualquiera que tenga el pelo largo, etc.

Saludos :)

Jenny Westwell
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:37
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Native speaker of: English
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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
discutir/el que más discutía, contradecía


Explanation:
Give lip
Lip, in this sense, just means a verbal argument, since words flow through the lip

Existe otra opción, que es give lip service, que significa hacer oidos sordos de algo:

We do feel Ecuador is probably the best choice of the countries that are even refusing to give lip service to the OECD.
Believe it or not, many companies give lip service to marketing and, as far as I have been able to study, such companies either go under or, if they exist at all, they really don't get anywhere.


Cristina Fernández
Spain
Local time: 09:37
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
los más bocones/bocazas


Explanation:
bocón: parlanchín, fanfarrón, bocazas, hablador, charlatán

bocazas (n.)
↗ bachiller, boquirroto, charlador, charlatán, hablador, ligero de lengua, locuaz, parlanchín, parlero, suelto de lengua


Eileen Banks
Argentina
Local time: 04:37
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Native speaker of: Spanish
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(que eran) los más matones/agresivos/provocadores


Explanation:
No creo que se trate tanto de responder con insolencia sino de provocar/agredir verbalmente sin venir a cuento.

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 09:37
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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1 day 4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
que eran los mas burlones, groseros, pelados, bocones, boca floja, habladores


Explanation:
depende de todo el contexto y que papel tengan los tipos a los que se refiere el texto y la condicion de su trabajo.

LAVL4
Mexico
Local time: 01:37
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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