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During the Mexican Revolution, a Durango -bound government munitions train is forced to stop due to the presence of a crucified federal army officer on the tracks. El Chucho/Chuncho Muños, an arrogant gun runner and guerrilla figure who is loyal to the revolutionary leader General Elías, leads his gang in an assault on the train.
Guappo (plural: guappi) is a historical Italian criminal subculture and informal term of address in the Neapolitan language, roughly analogous to or meaning thug, swaggerer, pimp, braggart, or ruffian. While today the word is often used to indicate a member of the Camorra, a Mafia -type organisation in the region of Campania and its capital ...
IPA/Spanish. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
Órale is a common interjection in Mexican Spanish slang. [1] It is also commonly used in the United States as an exclamation expressing approval or encouragement. The term has varying connotations, including an affirmation that something is impressive, an agreement with a statement (akin to "okay"), or to signify distress. The word's origin is ...
t. e. Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere. [2] It belongs to the group of Caribbean Spanish variants and, as such, is largely derived from Canarian Spanish and Andalusian Spanish.
Invariable words in Spanish are often derived from the Latin participles ending in -ans and -ens (-antem and -entem in the accusative case): estudiante. Some words that are normatively epicene can have an informal feminine ending with '-a'. Example: la jefe; jefa. The same happens with la cliente (client); "la clienta".
chulería. While in other countries this word means "insolence", [13] in Puerto Rico it has an entirely different meaning and is used to describe that something is good, fun, funny, great or beautiful. [14] corillo. Friend, or group of friends. [9] dura.
Chavacano or Chabacano (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers. Other currently existing varieties are found in Cavite City ...