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Pages in category "Mexican slang" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bolillo; C. Chairo (slang)
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.
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.
The word mostly targets illegal immigrants in the United States. [1] Generally used as an ethnic slur , [ 2 ] the term was originally coined and applied only to Mexicans who entered the U.S. state of Texas from Mexico by crossing the Rio Grande , which is the U.S. border , presumably by swimming or wading across the river and getting wet, i.e ...
Spanish slang (1 C, 12 P) Spanish profanity (34 P) ... Pages in category "Spanish words and phrases" The following 169 pages are in this category, out of 169 total.
Coming from the Spanish word "juzgado" which means court of justice, hoosegow was a term used around the turn of the last century to describe a place where drunks in the old west spent a lot of ...
According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).
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