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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.
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.
Dagmar Rivera. The following is a list of Puerto Rican comedians which includes comedians who were born in Puerto Rico, comedians who are of full or partial Puerto Rican ancestry, and many long-term residents or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and happen to be comedians as well.
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
Through the albums, he became an international star of Spanish-language comedy before settling in Miami. Alvarez Guedes and his brother Rafael, together with composer/band leader Ernesto Duarte Brito , founded Gema Records , the company that launched the international careers of " El Gran Combo ", a Puerto Rican Salsa music group .
In 2014 Peña was commissioned by the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting (WIPR-TV, Channel 6) to create a series of nine documentary shorts called "Por Qué Conmemoramos". These three minute videos tell the stories behind Puerto Rican holidays. All nine shorts were created in Spanish, [12] and four of them were translated into ...
Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas! " Yo Soy Boricua, Pa' Que Tu Lo sepas! " (English: I am Puerto Rican, so that you know!) is a song composed in 1995 by Joel Bosch or (Bosh) a.k.a. Taino. [ 1][ 2] The song was born out of a moment of frustration and pride, as Taino overheard an engineer insulting Puerto Ricans in English during a recording ...
1953–1955. Rank. Private first class. Battles/wars. Korean War. Adalberto Rodríguez (January 22, 1934 – April 16, 1995), better known as Machuchal, was a Puerto Rican actor and comedian. Rodríguez was born in the town of Sabana Grande, in southwest Puerto Rico. In his boyhood years he imitated animal sounds for his elementary school peers.