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The Official Spanglish Dictionary: Un User's Guia to More Than 300 Words and Phrases That Aren't Exactly Espanol or Ingles
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The Official Spanglish Dictionary: Un User's Guia to More Than 300 Words and Phrases That Aren't Exactly Espanol or Ingles
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The Official Spanglish Dictionary: Un User's Guia to More Than 300 Words and Phrases That Aren't Exactly Espanol or Ingles
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"¡Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras!"
They're all Spanglish words and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of other
ciudades
across the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, very
foni
hybrid of two different languages or are they so
diferente?
Mira:
lonchando:
Having lunch. "I'm
lonchando,
I don't wanna talk to him now."
yogur:
Yogurt. "
Este yogur
doesn't really hit the spot when you're
lonchando.
Maybe I need to order a
jambergue
and some fries."
bacunclíner:
Vacuum cleaner. "
¡Aye!
I think the
bacunclíner
just swallowed my earring!"
frizando:
To make frozen, or freezing. "Turn up the heat,
¡estoy frizando!
"
Before long, you'll be ready to graduate to the next level of Spanglish, with terms like
pata de puerco
("pig leg" a new way to call someone an idiot) and
Jamón del Diablo
(deviled-ham product) and phrases like "¡:Boto la casa por la ventana!" ("That rocks!")
The Official Spanglish Dictionary
contains hundreds of terms to
guau
your friends and family, plus Spanglish terms of endearment, insults, and those all-important Spanglish pickup lines: "
A ti no te duelen ni los callos
" ("You're so fine, even your bunions don't hurt").