Tag Archives: vocabulary

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Gacho!

So apparently I’m this.  Or this is me.  ¡Gacho!  According to WikiLatino, unpleasant and ugly.  If we go by the Urban Dictionary‘s definition instead, the opposite of “chido”, which means cool, so “gacho” would mean…

Shooting Blanks.

Mudo. For the past couple of days I’ve been just that. Silent. Unable. Unwilling perhaps. To say much of anything at all. Every time I’ve tried to sit down and think about writing something cohesive,…

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Chongo! ¡Chonguda! ¡Chongalicious!

This post is dedicated to the one and only Salmita Hayek.  No, not because I am a huge fan.  Yes, she is definitely hot, and yes, it’s probably weird that me, as a man, find…

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Ocicón!

Because if ever there was a time to be ocicón… or ocicóna, it is today. Although probably not entirely in the way you might be thinking. No, not to yell at the top of our…

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Y a Lo Que Te Truje Chencha!

So this is less of a Mexi-Vocabulario, and more of a Mexi-Frase!  But how many more of these Mexi labels are you all going to let me get away with?  No sé.  Mejor, I’ll play…

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Bañársela!

¡Te la bañáste! ¡Nombre, ya ni la amuelas!  ¡No te la acabas! All variations of the single act of bañársela, or perhaps more comprehensible, as the act of overstepping one’s boundaries, be they self-imposed or…