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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



In English
Starting with
In Galician
Exact match
Title page
About
- twentieth, twenty, twice, twig, twilight, twin, twine, twining, twinkle, twinkling, twirl, twist, twisted, twister, twisty, twitch, twitchiness, twitter, twittering


twinkling


- noun
- chiscar

EN From the road one can watch them at work sitting half hidden in a scaffolding of planks that conceal the wheel turned by their foot, so that the pots seem to form themselves miraculously beneath their hands in the twinkling of an eye.
GL Pódese velos traballando dende a estrada, sentados e medio agachados por unha andamiaxe de táboas que encobren a roda que moven cos pés, de xeito que as olas semellan formarse a si mesmas, milagrosamente, entre as mans dos artesáns nun chiscar de ollo.
- Fonte: GAL (834)


- adjective
- escintilante

EN The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye.
GL A sucesión escintilante de escuridade e luz era excesivamente dolorosa para o ollo.
- Fonte: TEM (434)