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fumador

smoker

noun foo-mah-DOHR Rare

Usage Note

Fumador ('smoker', m) / fumadora (f) follows the regular -dor/-dora agent-noun pattern. It is also used as an adjective: zona fumadora ('smoking area'). The reflexive verb fumarse something informally means to skip or cut something: se fumó la clase ('he skipped class') — a Latin American colloquialism.

Examples

"Es un fumador empedernido desde los veinte años."

Natural Translation

He has been a hardened smoker since his twenties.

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