culebrón

Spanish

Etymology

From culebra (“snake”) ‎ -ón (augmentative suffix). The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running^[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kuleˈbɾon/ [ku.leˈβ̞ɾõn]
Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: cu‧le‧brón

Noun

culebrón m (plural culebrones)

soap opera
large snake
crafty person

References

^ “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28