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/Sounds like "koh" (as in "coat") + "SEE" (as in "see") + "nah" (as in "nacho")/

Meaning

A stove or cooktop in Argentina, Chile, and Spain, what Mexicans call 'estufa.' The appliance where you make everything from a fried egg to a full banquet.

Examples

Compramos una cocina nueva con horno. → We bought a new cocina with an oven.

La cocina tiene cuatro hornallas. → The cocina has four burners.

Regional synonyms

A person left speechless and frozen by surprise, completely unable to react. In Colombia and Venezuela quedar patidifuso is when reality far exceeds anything you ever expected.