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Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
Che (interjection) Signature used by Ernesto Guevara from 1960 until his death in 1967. His frequent use of the word "che" earned him this nickname. Che ( / tʃeɪ /; Spanish: [tʃe]; Portuguese: tchê [ˈtʃe]; Valencian: xe [ˈtʃe]) is an interjection commonly used in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul ( Brazil) and ...
As a word principally used by Jews to describe non-Jews, it is a term for the ethnic out-group. The Biblical Hebrew word goy has been commonly translated into English as nation, meaning a group of persons of the same ethnic family who speak the same language (rather than the more common modern meaning of a political unit).
Güey ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈwej]; also spelled guey, wey or we) is a word in colloquial Mexican Spanish that is commonly used to refer to any person without using their name. Though typically (and originally) applied only to males, it can also be used for females (although when using slang, women would more commonly refer to another woman ...
In Hindi, tipak, tipak. In Hungarian, csöp-csöp, csip-csöp ( csöpp or csepp is also the word for "drop") In Indonesian, tik tik. In Italian, plin plin, plop plop. In Japanese, ポツポツ ( potsu potsu ), pota pota ポタポタ. In Korean, ttokttok 똑똑, ttuk-ttuk 뚝뚝. In Latvian, pik pik, pak pak, pakš pakš.
Latin Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure).
Naco. (slang) Naco (fem. naca) is a pejorative word often used in Mexican Spanish that may be translated into English as "low-class", "uncultured", "vulgar" or "uncivilized ". [1] A naco ( Spanish: [ˈnako] ⓘ) is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes. Although, it is used across all socioeconomic classes, when associated with ...
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE ...