rabbit-mouth & rabbit-eyes - What is the Spanish translation? Spanish translators help general Spanish translators with the translation of rabbit-mouth & rabbit-eyes

Conges terminology question

136 months ago

Carlos Pablo MIGUES-LABANCA, B.A. (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Spanish
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Difficult / demanding
Word or term in question:	rabbit-mouth & rabbit-eyes
Context:	She was looking at her own paintings, and chuckling to herself over their comicalness. Suddenly they struck her as absolutely absurd. She quite enjoyed looking at them; they seemed to her so grotesque. Especially her self-portrait with its nice, brown hair and its slightly opened rabbit-mouth and its baffled, uncertain rabbit-eyes. Literary piece. I happen to be looking for a NATURAL rendering into Spanish. Is the original THAT natural ? At least in Spanish, the literal translation sounds way too weird. Thank you all very much in advance.

The answer of Peonia Kempenich was rated best

ojos y boca de liebre

My comment:

Tal vez, sustituir conejo por liebre sea menos cacofónico en español. Si recuerdas, la fábula de Esopo se titula: "La liebre y la tortuga" no "El conejo y la tortuga".

Dado el contexto literario es permisible jugar con las palabras para lograr la belleza del texto.

Como dato curioso, el inglés dice "brown hair" AND "hare" es "liebre", como vez, el autor juega con las palabras: "hair" (cabello) y "hare" (liebre), ambas palabras son homófonas, se pronuncian igual. Coincidence? I don't think so.