Meanings (ES + gloss)
montón
An amorphous, compact mass.
My first impulse was to get it[the chewing gum] into my mouth as quickly as possible, but I remembered where I was. I ran home, and on our front porch I examined my loot. The gum l…
Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
fajo
A substantial pile (normally of money).
The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene. W…
With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.