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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.
Spanish slang (1 C, 12 P) Spanish profanity (34 P) Spanish-language names (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Spanish words and phrases" The following 169 pages are in this ...
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Sister quotes are great for birthday cards, just-thinking-about-you texts or even a reminder that you still love them even when they annoy you. Read on for some of the best sister quotes out there.
Sweet Sister Quotes “A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” —Isadora James “Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the ...
This term, with the added word "baby"—"Hasta la vista, baby"—was later used in a popular hit song from 1987, "Looking for a New Love" by Grammy Award winner Jody Watley. [1] It was also used in the 1988 Tone Lōc single "Wild Thing". The phrase became a famous catchphrase when it was used in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Manong/manang is arguably the derivative of the Spanish word for brother/sister - "hermano" and "hermana". The addition of "ng" and loss of "her" could have been for a variety of reasons such as regional slang. The Tagalog equivalents are the masculine kuya (koo-yah) and the feminine ate (ah-teh).
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).