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English

Etymology

American Spanish pollera (“baby walker; chicken coop”) from pollo (“chicken”), from Latin pullus, pull?, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).

Noun

pollera (plural polleras)

1. A Latin American fiesta costume usually heavily embroidered and very full in the skirt.

Spanish

Etymology

Feminine of pollero, from Latin pull?ri?, pull?ria from pullus, pull?, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pollera f (plural polleras)

1. pollera
2. (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay) skirt, overskirt, kilt

   Synonym: falda

3. baby walker, a walking frame used to help teach children to walk without falling
4. chicken coop
5. chicken farmer
6. chicken seller

Derived terms

• pollera tubo
• pollera colorá

Further reading

• “pollera” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

poll +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

poller (plural pollers)

1. one who polls or lops trees
2. one who cuts hair; a barber
3. one who votes
4. one who registers voters or conducts a poll
5. (computing) a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data

Anagrams

• repoll

Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

poller m (plural pollers, diminutive pollertje n)

1. a retractable road bollard

Related terms

• verkeerspaal (“a road bollard”)