batista f. batiste

bayoneta f. bayonet

baza f. trick (at cards)

beber drink

belleza f. beauty

bello beautiful, fine

bendecir bless

berenjena f. plant one of whose varieties is the egg-plant (to eat its fruit was once popularly supposed to cause insanity); que ——­s what craziness; what stuff

Berlin Berlin

berroquena adj. used with noun piedra (rock, stone) to mean granite, as piedra ——­ granite, granite rock; ser de piedra ——­ be hard as stone

besar kiss

biblioteca f. library

bibliotecario m. librarian

bien well; quite; mas ——­ rather; m. good, benefit; object of love; pl. property; *——­es de fortuna* worldly treasures

bienestar m. well-being

bigote m. mustache; decir en sus ——­s say to one’s face (cf. decir en sus barbas)

blanca f. old silver coin (no longer in use)

blanco white

blanquear whiten

boardilla f. garret

boca f. mouth

bocado m. mouthful

boda f. wedding; marriage

bodorrio m. (fam. for bodijo) unequal marriage

bollo m. roll, cake

Bonaparte, Joseph (1768-1844), brother of Napoleon I, through whose agency he became Spain’s unwelcome ruler from 1808 to 1813

bondad f. goodness

bondadoso kind, generous

bonito pretty; good-looking

boquirrubio simple, artless

bordar embroider

borraja f. borage

bosque m. forest

bostezar yawn

botica f. drug store; drug

brasero m. brazier, pan to hold coals

bravo brave, fierce

brazo m. arm

breve brief

bribon m. rascal

brillante brilliant

brinco m. leap

Bruno Bruno (brown)

Bruselas Brussels

buche m. crop, craw; “chest”

bueno good; all right; estar ——­ be well; estar ——­ para be in the mood for (often with the opposite meaning, be in no mood for)

buey m. ox

Burgos Burgos (city in northern Spain)

burlarse de make fun of, mock

busca f. search

buscar look for