Golfa in english
Golfa
pronunciation: gɑlfə part of speech: noun
pronunciation: gɑlfə part of speech: noun
In gestures
golfa = floozy [floozie] ; streetwalker.
Example: She would be the queen-bee if she wasn't such a floozy.Example: She ain't some streetwalker who gets schlonged by just anybody.golfo2 = street urchin ; slum urchin ; urchin ; street arab ; bum ; rapscallion ; ragamuffin ; street gamin ; gamin ; skiver ; dodger ; lazybones ; layabout ; idler ; lounger ; thumb twiddler ; slop(e)y shoulders.
Example: The author examines Whistler's visits to the more squalid sections of the city, his views along the Thames and his portrayals of street urchins.Example: Victorian photographs of social commentary ranged from the pseudo-sentimental slum urchins of Oscar Rejlander to the stark honest portrayal of the horrible conditions of the Glascow slums by Thomas Annan.Example: This is a film that that will melt hearts of stone, with its cast of scruffy urchins who learn both song and life lessons under the tutelage of a paternalistic mentor at a grim boarding school for 'difficult' boys .Example: Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons.Example: Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.Example: In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.Example: He was looking affably at the two dubious ragamuffins and, moreover, even making inviting gestures to them.Example: On arrival in Algiers we were besieged by boot-blacks and street gamins whenever we stopped to inquire the way.Example: He gradually spends more time on the streets with the gamins and less time at home.Example: He's a lifelong skiver who spends his days doing drugs and dossing about with his mates while his girlfriend earns an honest crust.Example: Street boys like Slake, a dodger used to running away, do not, even when they are myopic and dreamers, allow themselves to bump into lampposts.Example: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.Example: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.Example: This magazine prints essays and stories that celebrate the joyful life of an idler.Example: So which one of us will be the first one who gets fired because of being a lounger?.Example: Lincoln was not a thumb twiddler like his predecessor in the White House, James Buchanan.Example: I agree with her on that one -- we have several people at work who are called 'slopey shoulders' behind their backs.more:
» golfo de la playa = beach bum .
Example: Central America is a beach bum's paradise -- white sand beaches lined by coconut trees, turquoise Caribbean waters, warm Pacific swells, and deserted islands.