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/Sounds like "pee" (as in "pea") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "dah" (as in "dart")/

Meaning

A charcuterie board of cold cuts, cheeses, olives, cured meats, and bread shared among friends or family in Argentina. The picada is the perfect appetizer before asado and the ideal companion for wine and long conversations.

Examples

We put together a picada while waiting for the asado.

The picada at the bar was spectacular.

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Regional synonyms

In Spain, an insufferably tiresome and persistent person who never reads the room. A pelmazo latches on, goes on and on about the same topic, and genuinely cannot tell that everyone around them checked out long ago. The word comes from "pelma," a dense sticky mass, which is exactly how it feels to be around one.