Meanings (ES + gloss)
chancón • chapona • chapón • empollona • empollón • mateo
One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.
The popular science bit goes like this. Your brain has two hemispheres, left and right. The left is the organised swot who likes bright light, keeps his bedroom tidy and can tolera…
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