Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
hablar estrujado
English translation:
talk rudely
Spanish term
hablar estrujado
La madre dice que su hija tiene amistades pero que "le habla estrujado a todo el mundo, y le dan unas rabias que es tremendo. No yo mismo la puedo controlar. Hace mandados, pero es necesario que alguien vaya siempre después de ella, porque "se queda donde quiera".
| 4 +1 | talk rudely |
Jairo Payan
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| 4 | speak harshly / be curt |
Charles Davis
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| 3 +1 | snap |
neilmac
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| 3 | Talk angrily |
Carlos del Barrio (X)
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Proposed translations
Colombia
"Knowledge and quality"
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Portuguese to Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
talk rudely
Este “hablar estrujado” es una síntesis de hablar de manera estrujada. Es una forma de hablar de modo brusco, con palabras ásperas, sin miramiento. En este modo de hablar no existe necesariamente la intención ofensiva, pero subsisten dudas con respecto de eso.
Talk angrily
For me are similar terms, which can be translated as talking angrily.
speak harshly / be curt
There's a useful explanation here, which suggests that the expression is particularly characteristic of Dominican Spanish:
"Estrujar algo es ajarlo. El verbo último corresponde a estropear el aspecto de una cosa. Es tratar a una persona mal verbalmente para humillarla. [...]
Este “hablar estrujado” es una síntesis de hablar de manera estrujada. Es una forma de hablar de modo brusco, con palabras ásperas, sin miramiento. En este modo de hablar no existe necesariamente la intención ofensiva, pero subsisten dudas con respecto de eso."
http://acento.com.do/2014/opinion/1413139-hablar-estrujado/
snap
“...she snaps at everyone all the time. People think she is a mean old bat. When she comes out and chases the kids off the bench in front of her ..."
Here There and Everywhere
https://books.google.es/books?isbn=3961420688 - Traducir esta página
Avlon McCreadie - 2016 - Fiction
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Note added at 1 hr (2016-11-22 18:49:18 GMT)
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"She snaps at everyone. Yet when her mother tells her off, she often bursts into tears and complains, 'I never do anything right. You're always picking on me!'"
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Note added at 1 hr (2016-11-22 18:50:28 GMT)
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Snap: 2: to utter sharp biting words : bark out irritable or peevish retorts
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snap
https://es.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060831111306AAAHpkk
http://www.fremantleldc.wa.edu.au/uploaded_files/media/depression.pdf
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