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From standard Spanish acicalado bembé a big party. [3] [6] bichote Important person. From English big shot. [7] birras Beer. [3] bochinche gossip [8] boricua The name given to Puerto Rico people by Puerto Ricans. [3] bregar To work on a task, to do something with effort and dedication. [9] broki brother or friend. [5] cafre a lowlife.
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People in Puerto Rico love creating new slang so much that getting colloquialisms into the Diccionario Real de la Academia Espa–ola, or the Royal Spanish Academy's Dictionary, is practically a ...
Órale is a common interjection in Mexican Spanish slang. [1] It is also commonly used in the United States as an exclamation expressing approval or encouragement. The term has varying connotations, including an affirmation that something is impressive, an agreement with a statement (akin to "okay"), or to signify distress.
¡Ole! or ¡olé! is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance, especially associated with the audience of bullfighting and flamenco dance. The word is also commonly used in many other contexts in Spain, and has become closely associated with the country; therefore it is often used outside Spain in cultural representation ...
With Spanish being a grammatically gendered language, one's sexuality can be challenged with a gender-inappropriate adjective, much as in English one might refer to a flamboyant man or a transgender man as her. Some words referring to a male homosexual end in an "a" but have the masculine article "el"—a deliberate grammatical violation.
The expression is also related to oh ve, an older expression in Danish and Swedish, and oy wah, an expression used with a similar meaning in the Montbéliard region in France. [citation needed] The Latin equivalent is heu, vae!; a more standard expression would be o, me miserum, or heu, me miserum. [citation needed]
Pages in category "Spanish slang" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Barbudos; Bolillo; C.