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March in Cuba featuring posters comparing anti-revolutionaries to worms. Gusano (lit. worm, fem. gusana) [1] is the Spanish language term for "worm". It is a disparaging name for Cuban counter-revolutionaries and those who emigrated from Cuba following the rise of Fidel Castro after the Cuban Revolution.
Also, I edited the addition of an external link to the so-called "Diccionario Cubano" because a.) it is promulgated by a musical band, not a serious source, and b.) it contains words more appropriate to an article on slang. The Cuban-specific words I've mentioned in the article are not slang, but rather the accepted lexicon of the vernacular.
Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba.As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion of Wh-questions, and a lower rate of dropping of subject pronouns compared to other Spanish varieties.
6. Hoosegow. Used to describe: Jail or prison 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 ...
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For their cultural relevance, some slang terms have been added to Merriam-Webster. Still, plenty of people aren't aware of the cultural and historical nuance behind the words they use to express ...
The demonym habanero/a for Cuba's capital, Havana, has several derived or related terms, including: habanero, a chili pepper. habano, a generic term for Cuban cigars, habanera, a style of Cuban popular dance music of the 19th century. "Habanera", an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique Carmen. Havanese, the national dog of Cuba. See also
Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional. Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds.