Meanings (ES + gloss)
cumplido • cumplimiento • falago • halago
An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
[…] I met him With customary compliment; when he, Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and So leaves me to consider what is breeding…
pay someone a compliment
falago • halago
Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery.
He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest…
This accomplished man condescended to think of a young girl, and take the pains to talk to her, not with absurd compliment, but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes w…
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cumplimentar • dar un cumplido • falagar • felicitar • halagar
To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).