choricero: a person who engages in an illegal business. The word really refers to a sausage maker or seller.
chorizo: is an illegal business. Embutido is also used. Both chorizo and embutido mean sausage. The latter comes form the verb embutir which means to insert/stuff or make sausage.
American Football Vocabulary Revisited
More Costa Rican Expressions
chancecito: a moment. Dame un chancecito y te doy una mano .(Give me a chance and I will help you.)
chao: good-bye from the Italian word “ciao.”
chapa: a dumb person or a coin
chapulín: a thief, a grasshopper or a type of tractor
chavalo: a boy
chema: shirt
To be all ears
In Spanish there are two words that are frequently used for ears la oreja and el oído. The former is the external part of the ear. Oído is the inner part of the ear or sense of hearing.
Parts of the ear:
El estribo – stirrup
El lóbulo – ear lobe
El martillo – hammer
El oído
More Pachuquismos and Tiquismos
(Continued from last week)
Caballo means horse but is sometimes used for pants. Rucos is also used for pants in Costa Rica since it is also local word for horse.
Cabra means girlfriend but actually is a female goat
Cabro is used for boyfriend but really means a male goat
Caite is an old
