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using a merely descriptive term, or one which, although insulting, can be used as a mild or at times even affectionate form of teasing: tonto ("silly"), burro (lit.: "donkey"), etc. using a more explicitly insulting expression, although one which still does not qualify as a real profanity: imbécil, idiota, estúpido. one which delves into ...
After a group of pirates invades the de la Vega home, Bernardo witnesses the rape and murder of his mother, and a result, stops speaking. Diego's grandmother, White Owl, concludes Bernardo refuses to speak as a form of mourning. He is shown to speak to Tornado in a spirit quest and later to a fellow native girl, Light-in-the-Night, whom he marries.
muy agrio ("very bitter") → acérrimo ("strong, zealous, fanatic") Applying -ísimo to nouns is not common, but there is the famous case of Generalísimo . As in English and other languages influenced by it, a teenspeak superlative can be formed by the prefix super- , or sometimes hiper- , ultra- , re- or requete- .
Spanish uno can also be used as a pronoun, like the English generic "one", to represent an indeterminate subject, but this is not possible with Portuguese um; the reflexive pronoun se must be used instead. Se may be used in Spanish to form passive and impersonal constructions, as well. [7] Uno (or Se) debe pensar antes de actuar. (Spanish)
Tonto first rode a horse named "White Feller" (White Fella/Fellah). When the 1938 Republic movie serial The Lone Ranger was being filmed, it was thought that having two white horses would be confusing, so the producers made "White Feller" a pinto horse, presumably on the theory that, being partly white, a pinto could still be named "White Feller".
The U.S. visa process. Underpinning the issue, which will disproportionately affect fans from Latin America and Africa, is a visa process that’s complicated and time-consuming.
Bun mui or Bun muy (賓妹) (Hong Kong) A Filipino young lady. Chinese employers call their Filipino maids Bun mui. It is applied to all Filipinas regardless of age or social status. Burzhuy (буржуй) (Russia) a person from the Western world. Originally was a spoken form of буржуа "bourgeois" (in Marxist meaning) Čefur
Tonto , a character in the Metabarons comic book; TONTO, an acronym for the synthesizer system of Tonto's Expanding Head Band "Tonto" (song), by the American math rock band Battles, from their album Mirrored. Tonto+, the EP centered on the song