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Conch. 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.
cuérrago "riverbed"; also Portuguese córrego and corgo, from Late Latin corrugus "canal, water conduit in a mine", from Iberian; related to arroyo. galápago "tortoise" (also Catalan calàpat "toad"), from * calappacu. gándara "low wasteland, wilderness", from Late Latin gangadia. garabato "pothook; squiggle".
This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Italian American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia . administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy.
This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely ...
This is a list of Spanish words of various origins. It includes words from Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian languages, Egyptian, Greek, Hungarian, Ligurian, Mongolian, Persian, Slavic (such as Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Croatian ). Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other ...
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 ...
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
A grito or grito mexicano (Spanish pronunciation:; Spanish for "shout") is a common Mexican interjection, used as an expression. Characteristics [ edit ] This interjection is similar to the yahoo or yeehaw of the American cowboy during a hoedown , with added ululation trills and onomatopoeia closer to "aaah" or "aaaayyyyeeee", that resemble a ...