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  • He knows, for instance, that Gamacho, the Deputy from Javira, has been nothing else but a 'tramposo' of the commonest sort, a petty pedlar of the Campo, till he managed to get enough goods on credit from Anzani to open a little store in the wilds, and got himself elected by the drunken mozos that hang about the Estancias and the poorest sort of rancheros who were in his debt.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • He knows, for instance, that Gamacho, the Deputy from Javira, has been nothing else but a 'tramposo' of the commonest sort, a petty pedlar of the Campo, till he managed to get enough goods on credit from Anzani to open a little store in the wilds, and got himself elected by the drunken mozos that hang about the Estancias and the poorest sort of rancheros who were in his debt.

    Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

  • : Later you will find that you not only understand new words without looking them up ..... so what would tramposo and engañoso and latoso and exitoso and ruidoso mean?]) trapped, cheated, boring, (annoying?), successful and noisy

    Por mayoreo? What does it mean? 2002

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