- acariciar: to caress; to pet
- acercarse: to approach
- aconsejar: to advise
- ademán: gesture
- adquirir: to aquire
- advertir: to warn
- agacharse: to stoop down; to bend over
- anticuario: antiques dealer
- antigüedades: antiques
- aparentar: to pretend
- atisbar: to notice
- aullar: to howl
- baratijas: cheap stuff
- bastón: cane
- billetes: bills
- cacharros: pieces of pottery
- cachivaces: utensils; useless junk
- callejero: pertaining to a street
- cartera: wallet
- cazador: hunter
- cazar: to hunt
- coja: broken
- cola: tail
- con el rabillo del ojo: out of the corner of the eye
- conseguir: to get
- de casta: pure bred
- desdeñosamente: disdainfully; scornfully
- enguantada: gloved
- escaparate: show window
- escuálido: squalid; dirty
- fastidio: bored
- gesto: gesture
- hombro: shoulder
- incorporarse: to sit up
- linaje: lineage; family
- llenar: to fill out
- lomo: back of an animal
- lucha: fight
- marcharse: to leave; to go out
- menudencias: things of little value
- mirada: glance
- morlacos: money
- morrongo: cat
- no caber duda: there is no doubt
- obsequiar: to give a gift
- palmada: a slap
- pedazos: pieces
- pleito: fight
- rabo: tail
- regalar: to give a gift
- regatear: to bargain
- regateo: bargaining
- retirarse: to leave; to go out
- ribetes: markings
- ronronear: to purr
- según: according to
- suspirar: to sigh
- ternura: tenderness
- trapicheo: bargaining
- vistazo: view/glance