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  2. Housekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment.

  3. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Spanish manzana de Adán calques English Adam's apple (nuez de Adán, meaning "Adam's nut", in standard Spanish), which in turn is a calque of French pomme d'Adam See also: Spanglish Also technological terms calqued from English are used throughout the Spanish-speaking world:

  4. List of cleaning products - Wikipedia

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    A UV-emitting gas discharge lamp for the sterilization of water, an example of a germicidal lamp Alcohol-based hand sanitizer in a hospital Pine oil. Disinfectants are antimicrobial agents that are applied to the surface of non-living objects to destroy microorganisms that are living on the objects. [1]

  5. Caló (Chicano) - Wikipedia

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    According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).

  6. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word. The second table is a list of 100 most common lemmas found in a text corpus compiled by Mark Davies and other language researchers at Brigham Young University in the United States.

  7. Maid - Wikipedia

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    House-maid or housemaid: a generic term for maids whose function was chiefly "above stairs", and were usually a little older, and better paid. Where a household included multiple housemaids, the roles were often subdivided as below. Head house-maid: the senior house maid, reporting to the housekeeper.

  8. List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    From standard Spanish acicalado bembé a big party. [3] [6] bichote Important person. From English big shot. [7] birras Beer. [3] bochinche gossip [8] boricua The name given to Puerto Rico people by Puerto Ricans. [3] bregar To work on a task, to do something with effort and dedication. [9] broki brother or friend. [5] cafre a lowlife.

  9. Category:Redirects to Spanish-language terms - Wikipedia

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    The pages in this category are redirects to terms in the Spanish language.The language code in the |2= parameter below is essential to populate this category. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R from alternative language|1=(the < from > ISO 639 name code)|2=es}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]].