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otario

Naive; a sucker and Sucker, someone easily fooled.†† otario: Marked as lunfardo in the dictionary entry and Origin: Borrowed from Italian otaria, the South American sea lion.†† otario appears in the lyrics of Farolito de papel.†

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Glossary meaning Naive; a sucker

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Glossary meaning Sucker, someone easily fooled

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Marked as lunfardo in the dictionary entry

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Origin: Borrowed from Italian otaria, the South American sea lion

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Used in lyric1

Used in lyric Farolito de papel

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