Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

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Position	2	2
Accepted meanings	15230	2
Obtained votes	125	2
Votes by meaning	0.01	7
Inquiries	441251	3
Queries by meaning	29	7
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mate: Infusion of yerba mate, actually takes its name from the container where it is drunk, which was originally " 34 mati; ( in quechua: hollowed-out pumpkin, porongo ). Today the grass, the container and drink are called in the same way. The mate is typical of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
contra viento y marea: It comes from the navigation or seamanship, used to encourage boaters to move forward with the ship despite the headwind and sea weather. Metaphorically, is to continue forward facing obstacles.
atorranta: Lunfardo is spirited, woman of reprehensible moral that lies with anyone in any part ( from there association with the male '' atorrante '' ). See: Atorrante.
gliptomanía: Obsession or fondness for faceted stones or precious stones worked, also by sculptures. It comes from the Greek 947; 955; 965; 960; 964; 959; 962; ( glyptos, " 34 stone engraving; ) and 956; 945; 957; 953; 945; ( mania, " 34 madness; ).
hacerle la cama: Prepare a situation for " sleep 34, " lie " " lie " someone. Figuratively, it is to assemble a deception a person so that they fall into a trap.
bestezuela: Diminutive of " beast ". It is often used as a loving, although recriminatorio, toward a person deal.
urpi: Quechua, generically named bird and specifically the Dove.
¡miércoles!: Euphemism for the exclamation point " shit! " by phonetic similarity.
atorrante: Vague, beggar, who spends sleeping anywhere, someone crafty to survive. The origin is much-discussed; Although the etymology proposed by ARTAPALO is interesting, in rioplatense lunfardo must have different by the time they appeared ( mid-19th century ). I'm going to ignore the most popular, with the company Torrant pipes, because we did not find documentation about the existence of that mark. Perhaps comes from the 39 Spanish; torrar '' which is associated with heat, toasting, and sleep or listlessness causing by the summer. The humble people, who lived in the streets of Buenos Aires, used to make coins working on the torraderos of coffee, stirring the grains toast evenly, but they tended to leave the task to sleep awhile and that associated them with voice 39 atorrantes '' begging atorradores of coffee that spent it sleeping instead of working.
septubre: Neologism by two months " September - October ".
bala: Lunfardo is " " " gay with modal hard-hit ". The complete form is " tragabala " because it was formerly called " 34 bullet; virile member.
covacha: So disparagingly of '' cave ''. Small, dark, neglected, place where it should be at least one person.
exorcismo: It is named to the ceremony to drive out demons. It comes from the Greek 949; 958; 959; 961; 954; 953; 963; 956; 959; 962; ( exorkismos, " conjure up " ) and it has an etymology that associated it with Orkus, the God of oaths, who later became guardian of the underworld. See: ORC.
percal: Current cotton fabric, used to make clothing.
spam: Advertising not requested or expected in the context. It can appear by mail, in the middle of a comment or forum discussion. The name comes from a sketch by the British group Monty Python, who scoffed at a menu full of meals with " Spam " ( 39 English contraction; spiced ham 39, " marinated ham " ) where no one wanted it or expected. From there association with the mail or spam message.
orco: Classic divinity of hell. From the latin Orcus, i ( also, Pluto ) and the Greek 927; 961; 954; 959; 962; 32; ( Orkos ) Although the origin is older, the character existed as an entity exit underworld in Celtic mythology.
fane: Fane is incorrectly written, and should be written as "fané" being its meaning:
In lunfardo, " fané " It is old, ruined, rundown. Is of French origin where fanee is " bleached " " that lost its luster ".
chato: Satin, form flat, which has a height without bumps.
orín: Visible rust, oxidized surface of an iron. Not to be confused with " 34 urine;
finoli: In slang, it is a festive way to say " " fine. It applies to things and people that can be described as fine, elegant, but somewhat pretentious.