Empollón
Definition
(noun) Bookworm, nerd; a very studious person
Examples
“Es un empollón y siempre saca las mejores notas.”
“No seas empollón, sal un rato.”
Don't be such a bookworm, go out for a bit.
“Mi hermana es una empollona, se pasa la tarde en la biblioteca de la facultad.”
My sister's a real bookworm, she spends her afternoons in the college library.
“En el tren de Valencia, un empollón me explicó la diferencia entre Marx y Engels.”
On the train to Valencia, some bookworm explained the difference between Marx and Engels to me.
“Luis era empollón en bachillerato, pero ahora trabaja de mecánico y apenas abre un libro.”
Luis was a bookworm in high school, but now he works as a mechanic and hardly opens a book.
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