Humorous Bodily Expressions

Bizco – cross eyed
Bizco – cross eyed

Boca de culo de gallina – a small mouth (vulgar)
Bola de billar – bald
Bola de manteca – a ball of fat (heavy person)
Cabeza de huevo – egghead
Caer en oidos sordos – to fall on deaf ears
Cabeza de pollo – dumb
Casperín – like Casper the ghost (a very white person)
Cejas de perico – thick eyebrows
Cejijunto –having eyebrows that meet
Colmilludo – big eye teeth like Dracula
Como dios lo trajo al mundo – naked or in birthday suit
Cuatro culos – to have a big butt (offensive)
Cuatro ojos – foreyes (glasses)
Cuellilargo – having a long neck. The term is also used for a type of bottle
Cuerpazo – a good body Buena carrocería or chasis are also used
Cuerpo de almohada vieja – to have a bad body
Cuerpo de gallina – to have no hips
Dientes de ardilla – big front teeth
Dientes de maíz – to have undersized teeth
Dientón – to have big teeth
Dumbo – big ears
Enano – a short person or a child
Fósforo – a skinny person
Frentón – to have a big forehead
Las paredes tienen oídos or las paredes oyen – the walls have ears
Meter las narices en lo que no te importa – to get into someone’s else’s business
Nacer por el culo – to be ugly (very vulgar and offensive)
Nadadora – flat as a board (insulting)
Narizón – a big nose
No tener pelos en la lengua – to speak one’s mind
No tener un pelo de tonto – to not be dumb
Oídos tísicos – to have big ears
Ojo por ojo, diente por diente – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Ojos saltones – pop eyes
Ojos soñolientos – sleepy eyes
Orejón – big ears
Panza cervecera – a beer belly
Patas de mono – to have flat feet like a monkey
Patas de yuca – a person with very white skin on their feet.
Pecho de zapo – a big chest
Pelo de elote – unattractive hair
Plumero –someone with wild unruly hair. Actually a plumero is a duster.
Por la boca muere el pes – be careful what you say
Por un pelo no es mono – to be very hairy
Por una baba no es mono – same as the last one
Quemar las pestañas – to burn the midnight oil or cram for a test
Quien tiene boca se equivoca – if you have a mouth you are bound to make a mistake
Ser todo oídos – to be all ears
Sindi (sin dientes) – to have no teeth
Sin cejas – without eyebrows (some women). Snakes have no eyebrows.
Tener más entradas que el ICE or Tener más entradas que el aeropuerto Juan Santamaría – to have receding hair
Todo entra por la vista – everything is seen through the eyes
Trompudo – big lips
Versele el pensamiento – to be so bald you read a person’s thoughts

Related Tiquismos:

  • A culo pelado – naked
  • Anillo – anus
  • Arrugar la jacha – to frown
  • Cuerpo de tentación cara de arrepentimiento – a good body but ugly face
  • Elena – a small person. Slang for enano
  • Enjachar – to make a face at someone
  • Feto – an ugly person (fetus)
  • Jacha – face
  • Jupa – head
  • Jupón – a big head
  • Maduro – male sex organ (vulgar)
  • Momia – an ugly person
  • No es la ropa, es la percha – it’s not the clothes but what’s underneath.
  • ¿Para qué darle un peine a un calvo? – Why give a comb to a bald man?
  • Pepa – female sex organ (vulgar)
  • Picha – male sex organ (vulgar)
  • Pichel –face (insulting)
  • Quedar como un culo – to look like an ass or fool (vulgar)
  • Rosca – male sex organ (vulgar)
  • Volvérsele la rosca – when a man changes his sexual orientation (vulgar)