gandul 'lazy'

[Max W Wheeler]

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

> a gandul is a "pigeon pea" and is about half the size of a sweet pea
> I think it's only used as "lazy" in Spanish slang and I seem to remember
> seeing it used that way in literature of the Siglo de Oro --but it's been
> many years since I've read that stuff

<Gandul> doesn't seem to be slang in contemporary European Spanish, nor
does it seem to have the meaning `pigeon pea' there. García de Diego
says it's from Arabic <gandur> `majo' (I haven't got Corominas DCEH
handy).

BTW <gandula> is `deck-chair' in Catalan; a nice metonymy.

Max
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