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apurado.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
apurado.
Principal English Translation: 

demanding or rude person

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ofelia tlahuel aporaroh quemman tlamachtia huan iuhquinon axcanah quicuamachiliah momachtianih (Sullivan et al. 2016: 27). =Ofelia is very demanding when she teaches and thus the students don’t understand her. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 84.