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new Spanish words and chilean modismos

The best time to discover you don't know something is in the middle of a sentence. 

wierd words from the rural clinic

9/28/2017

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  • no me pesques/no me tomes en cuenta = dont listen to me
  • si apenas me conoces = you barely know me
  • risueño = smiling/cheerful/pleasant
  • secto = cult
  • piteado (modismo) = its a bad/pre-mortal situation
  • medio compresion = compression socks
  • tétrico! = ooooooo so scary/creepy!
    • used when our office door creeked open 
  • suele = usually
  • catrasca (really old modismo) = describes a day where nothing is going right. 
    • The evolution of this word is fun! So the "ca"s come from the word "cagada" which means shit/mistake/fumble and the word "tras" which means after. Put it all together and you have "shit after shit"
  • pileta = fuente = pool/fountain
  • encuestra = survey
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Dave link
8/26/2021 09:02:30 pm

Lovely post thanks for posting

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