bombilla
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A metal straw with a small filter used to drink mate
- noun
- /bɑmˈbiːjə/
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bombilla
- The bombilla allows you to drink mate without getting the leaves in your mouth.
Examples
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He enjoyed his mate while using a bombilla to sip it.
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He kept silent for a while, bombilla between his lips, sipping mate every now and then.
Fiction book (1996) -
By the third day of sipping through a metal bombilla.
Fiction book (1996) -
She carefully placed the bombilla in the mate cup before passing it around.
Synonyms
straw
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A thin tube for sucking drinks into the mouth
is metal with a built-in filter for sipping mate
drinking straw
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A thin tube often made of plastic or paper that you use to suck a drink into your mouth
is metal and has a filter for drinking mate
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bombilla comes from Spanish and is a small form of bomba, a word like English 'bomb' or 'pump'. The mate bombilla has a small bulb or filter at the end, so the metal straw was called a bombilla because of that little rounded part.