tagging along, joining a group or plan uninvited. · coupled, attached, connected.
çekim: çoğul acoplados
köken: Past participle of acoplar (“to couple, to attach”). Equivalent to acoplar + -ado. The colloquial social meaning is a metaphor: just as a trailer is hitched to a vehicle, an acoplado is a person who attaches themselves to a social group, event, or couple, often without a direct invitation.
Al final vino al cine de acoplado porque no tenía otro plan.
harness (tack) · team (a set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage) · trailer (an unpowered wheeled vehicle, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment)
a farmhand (hired agricultural worker) · a person hired to do menial or questionable tasks; a goon, a lackey, a stooge. · a male person who has not yet reached manhood; a boy.
çekim: çoğul drängar · tamlayan drängs
köken: From Old Swedish drænger (“young man, boy, servant”), from Old Norse drengr (“boy; log, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz. See also Danish dreng (“boy”).
aile: drängstuga, drängtjänst
drängen Alfred i Emil i Lönneberga
Efter skörden bjöd man drängarna på öl och nybakt kornbröd.
Din far var en av hemliga polisens betalda drängar.