Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word burla.
Examples
-
The word burlesque comes from the Latin word burra meaning nonsense and the Italian word burla meaning mockery.
-
The word burlesque comes from the Latin word burra meaning nonsense and the Italian word burla meaning mockery.
-
Ancora uno spot da una serie di quattro cinque, che coinvolge un robot incline alla burla ed un deodorante adatto al cambiamento del clima.
-
Salamanca llaman por burla; y sospécholo de que dice en este capítulo que le dejé sin respuesta, porque jamás dejé de responder á ninguna persona de aquella universidad que me preguntase algo, sino a éste que digo, con el cual por ser falto de juicio y preguntar algunas veces cosas desatinadas, y colligir disparates de lo que oia y no entendia, me enojaba y le decia que era tonto.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
-
On pp. 97-98 Sanchez writes: 'Al reves desto se burla Horacio de una dama, motejandola de vieja: y [~q] ya se le passo la flor, aunque ella no lo piensa.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
-
Mediaron algunas cosillas que me han hecho sospechar algo de eso y de mí nadie se burla.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
-
On pp. 97-98 Sanchez writes: 'Al reves desto se burla Horacio de una dama, motejandola de vieja: y [~q] ya se le passo la flor, aunque ella no lo piensa.
Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921
-
Onkelos had burla, the Syriac berula, both of which evidently are the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
-
It was a burla not unworthy the peerless gifts of Boccadoro, and a fitting one on which to close his wild career of folly.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
-
(Senkereh), and, it appears, at Sir-burla (Tel-Loh), at Nipur (Niffer) and at Urukh (Erech, Warka), and as the two latter cities belonged to
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.