mordidan.

Brit.

/mɔːˈdiːdə/, U.S.

/mɔrˈdidə/

Forms: 1900s– mordida, 1900s– mordita.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mordida.

Etymology: < Central-American, Mexican, and Chilean Spanish mordida bribe (colloquial; apparently only attested in written use from 1950), specific use of Spanish mordida bite (1775), use as noun of feminine of past participle of morder to bite < classical Latin mordēre (see mordant adj.).

In Mexico and elsewhere in Spanish America: a bribe, an illegal exaction.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun]

gift1382

juice1935

mordida1940

1940 Life 2 Dec. 102 In Mexico, and throughout Latin America, it is next to impossible to make headway with petty officials without constant applications of the mordida, which literally translated means ‘the bite’, or bribe.

1946 M. Lowry Let. 15 June (1967) 101 The defection was the original defection of my failing to pay the ‘mordida’.

1967 Punch 18 Jan. 102/1 Just go see my friend, Sr. G., at Gobernacion... He's such a good friend of mine that you'll not even have to pay a mordida.

1993 Great Exped. Summer 8/1 In some cases I have paid the mordidas and left the scene, only to be stopped within minutes by another cop.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mordida
释义	mordidan. Brit. /mɔːˈdiːdə/, U.S. /mɔrˈdidə/ Forms: 1900s– mordida, 1900s– mordita. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mordida. Etymology: < Central-American, Mexican, and Chilean Spanish mordida bribe (colloquial; apparently only attested in written use from 1950), specific use of Spanish mordida bite (1775), use as noun of feminine of past participle of morder to bite < classical Latin mordēre (see mordant adj.). In Mexico and elsewhere in Spanish America: a bribe, an illegal exaction. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] gift1382 juice1935 mordida1940 1940 Life 2 Dec. 102 In Mexico, and throughout Latin America, it is next to impossible to make headway with petty officials without constant applications of the mordida, which literally translated means ‘the bite’, or bribe. 1946 M. Lowry Let. 15 June (1967) 101 The defection was the original defection of my failing to pay the ‘mordida’. 1967 Punch 18 Jan. 102/1 Just go see my friend, Sr. G., at Gobernacion... He's such a good friend of mine that you'll not even have to pay a mordida. 1993 Great Exped. Summer 8/1 In some cases I have paid the mordidas and left the scene, only to be stopped within minutes by another cop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1940
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