A chambear… ¿pues qué más nos queda? No hay de otra. Because 1) yesterday was Labor Day, a time to honor all of the gente bien chambeadora that have made things like holidays, overtime pay and weekends possible for all of us, and 2) because how many of us did […]
¡Tragón! ¡Comelón! ¡Ya deja de estar comiendo! For some reason those words don’t seem all that unfamiliar to me. Aunque por lo menos, someone should have told me that later on in my life it would be perfectly okay to be considered the family “garbage disposal.” Maybe then I wouldn’t […]
To chulear. To andar chuleando. To make someone feel chuleado. In truth, you could even chulear an inanimate object, or place, basically by making said person, place or thing feel extra especial. See below examples: Hay que linda esta la niña. Hola mi gordita preciosa. Aeeyy… estos tacos están de […]
Kind of ridiculous, that as much as I love hot sauce and really anything spicy, I’m just now getting around to writing about this Mexi-Vocabulario word: ¡Enchilar! As in me enchile, te enchilaste, nos enchilamos. Basically, that the spice in something was so hot it burned. Though you can also use […]
Uuy… I’ve been called that one more than once. As a matter of fact, there’s a rather funny story about how big of a Chiflado I was as a kid. It involves my two eldest sisters, my cuñado, and a banana… that somehow ended up splattered all across my hair […]
¡No seas embustero! Don’t be a liar! We could probably leave it at that and you all would understand what this word means. Pero, well what’s the fun in that? Mejor, let’s let two of the world’s biggest divas sing to us about the word embustero. “Aww man, is this turning […]
¿Adió, a poco nada más te hizo mala cara? ¿Adió, y esta qué se cree? ¡Adío! ¿Y a mi qué? Fíjate que fulanita se peleó con el marido ayer. ¿Adió? If you haven’t guessed by now, today’s Mexi-Vocabulario is all about that very short and simple word we Mexicans love […]
Porque aunque nos toque trabajar mañana, hoy nos la pasarémos en el despapaye. Okay, I’ll translate. Because even though we have to work tomorrow, today, we’re going to party like there’s no tomorrow anyway, jajaja! Tell me I’m wrong? Yeah… I thought so! Pero any-guey, despapaye is also one of those […]