- Aderezar – to spice something up in figurative terms like a story or anecdote
- Bañazo – embarrassment
- Burucha – wood shavings. A more correct word is viruta
- Chochosa – money haring, huaca or mosca are also slang for money
- Chucarear
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Go to jail for uttering obscenities to women in Costa Rica
Piropos are flirtatious remarks or comments men often say to women as they walk down the street in Latin American countries. For example. ¿Qué hace una estrella como tú volando tan bajo? What is a beautiful star like you doing by flying so close to earth? Unfortunately, there are many piropos which are directed towards
To play it cool
“Como si” nada (as if nothing happened) is an idiom that is somewhat confusing for English speakers who trying to learn Spanish. There is an alternative and longer way of expressing the same idea: “Como si no hubiera pasado nada.” (as if nothing happened).
Here are a few examples of how how this idiom is used.
- El hizo
The best of the best
- Almanaques or primaveras – are years when referring to one’s age. For example,
- ¿Cuántos almanaques tienes? How old are you? ¿Cuántos años tienes? Is the correct expression.
- Armarse la gorda – to raise an uproar
- Avionetazo – a plane crash
- Celulitis
To have fangs
- Apretados – frozen juice or jello which is sold in a plastic sleeve which you have to squeeze or suck to extract the liquid. This term comes from the Spanish verb apretar which means to squeeze.
- Chanearse – to dress well
- Chaine – slang for threads or clothes
- Estar tamarindeado
