# Redux: more slang terms' equivalent in Spanish **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 29, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513 "2016-02-29T16:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/1 "2016-02-29T16:15:30Z")
In today’s Baldo comic strip, three of the five panels show Baldo jumping. In the last panel he tells his girlfriend Estella, “Leap Day,” and she answers “Doofus Day.” So I’m curious: How would one say “doofus,” as Estella meant it, into Spanish? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/2 "2016-02-29T16:33:35Z")
Pendejo? ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/3 "2016-02-29T16:37:58Z")
Tarado “Pendejo” means different things in different countries. Here in Perú is closer to “asshole”. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/4 "2016-02-29T16:58:29Z")
¡Carramba! It’s a good thing Baldo is Mexican, not Peruvian. His girlfriend wouldn’t call him something like that! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/5 "2016-02-29T18:35:06Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > Tarado > “Pendejo” means different things in different countries. Here in Perú is closer to “asshole”. AIUI, Here in Texas, pendejo means precisely that. ---
**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/6 "2016-02-29T20:23:42Z")
My Salvadoran ex girlfriend would use pendejo, tonto, terengo and pasmado. A Bolivian I used to work with always used carajo. I think trolo also means stupid in some countries, but I learned it to mean homosexual while in Argentina. ---
**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/7 "2016-02-29T20:27:41Z")
Boludo is another good one. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/8 "2016-02-29T20:37:39Z")
Baboso ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/9 "2016-02-29T21:08:02Z")
> [@Abner\_Ravenwood](#): > > My Salvadoran ex girlfriend would use pendejo, tonto, terengo and pasmado. A Bolivian I used to work with always used carajo. I think trolo also means stupid in some countries, but I learned it to mean homosexual while in Argentina. Carajo is more la “Damn!”. “Trola” means dick in Perú > [@Abner\_Ravenwood](#): > > Boludo is another good one. “Boludo” has a distinct River Plate (Argentina/Uruguay) feel. > [@madsircool](#): > > Baboso That’s very good. “Huevón” too, but it’s a bit harsher. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/10 "2016-02-29T21:25:12Z")
Loco? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/11 "2016-02-29T22:37:44Z")
\*Bobo \*means foolish and is milder than _pendejo_. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/12 "2016-03-01T00:16:24Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > \*Bobo \*means foolish and is milder than _pendejo_. Pendejo also means _pubic hair_. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/13 "2016-03-01T04:56:17Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Loco? :dubious: No no no no… _loco_ means crazy, not stupid. A man is driving along a road beside a high, whitewashed, spike-topped wall, when he gets a flat. He stops, changes the tyre and then can’t find the screws. There are several people watching from inside the wall, holding onto the spikes. One of them suggests “why don’t you take one screw from each of the other three wheels? That way all four have three screws and you can go on.” “Oh wow thank you! That was smart!” “Hey, I’m _loco_ not _tonto_!” _Tonto, idiota, estúpido, bobo, aboba(d)o, modorro, imbécil, atontolina(d)o…_ (the (d)s are supposed to be there in writing but do not get pronounced unless it’s by someone giving a speech). > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > ¡Carramba! ONE r. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/14 "2016-03-01T05:17:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > No no no no… _loco_ means crazy, not stupid. Wouldn’t anyone hopping around just because it’s Leap Day be, you know, kind of … unhinged? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/15 "2016-03-01T06:05:11Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Wouldn’t anyone hopping around just because it’s Leap Day be, you know, kind of … unhinged? :dubious: 😕 “unhinged”? Y ¿cómo se dice _ **eso** _ en español? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/16 "2016-03-01T09:18:26Z")
_Chalado, mal de la cabeza, mal del coco, como una puta cabra, me da lo mismo si la cabra cobra o lo hace gratis_… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/17 "2016-03-01T10:02:14Z")
I almost brought up _idiota_, and was going to ask if it wasn’t as common as I think, since I mostly hear it in English speaking contexts. In other words, it was just used because it’s a very obvious congnate. But then I realized that this thread is about slang, and _idiota_ might not qualify–hence why it had not yet been mentioned. But now that Nava has mentioned it, how common is _idiota_? And how strong? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/18 "2016-03-01T12:05:11Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > \*Bobo \*means foolish and is milder than _pendejo_. I was going to say _bobo_ as well. Also _menso_ – “rather stupid.” ---
**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/19 "2016-03-01T17:41:34Z")
“Qué indio/a” where they draw out on the first syllable of “indio” is another one I hear a lot from Central Americans, especially El Salvadorans. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513/20 "2016-03-01T19:56:53Z")
> [@Abner\_Ravenwood](#): > > “Qué indio/a” where they draw out on the first syllable of “indio” is another one I hear a lot from Central Americans, especially El Salvadorans. Okay…but not at all PC. Basically, saying indigenous people are a bit dense. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513.md?page=2)