Usuario:Hippietrail

Inglés

Pronunciación

hĭp'itrāl", /ˈhɪpiˌtreɪl/, /"hIpi%treIl/

Etimología

hippie + trail

Nombre propio

Hippietrail

El sendero muy conocido usado por viajeros independientes u alternativos especialmente en lugares exóticos o del tercer mundo, a menudo ironicamente durante intentando escapar los senderos muy conocidos.

Traducciones

español: sendero de los hipis

Hippietrail llegó a Wikipedia después de una busqueda “Google” returned una entrada sobre su proyecto, Linguaphile.

Hippietrail ha sido contribuidor de Everything2 y su predecessor, Everything, desde 1999. Por eso, Wikipedia llega facil a el.

Hippietrail aprendió que Wiktionary es más divertido aun que Wikipedia después de un cierto tiempo.

Hippietrail no suele hablar en la tercera persona.

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abigarrada

acalifa -- some type of plant

aceptado -- past part. aceptar

acheques -- (achaque(s)? is std. is this var. or error? malady, ailment)

adormecer -- to make sleepy; to numb

adormecerse -- to doze off; to go numb

adueñar -- appropriate

adueñarse -- to take possession of

-adura -- ver of -dura

aeromoza

afán -- desire; determination

se afanar -- try your hardest, hurry up

afane -- form of afanar

afiche -- in RAE

agobiar pos_v

agotadora pos_a -- tiring, f

aguamanil m -- washbowl

aguante m — stamina, patience

aguardar -- to wait (syn: esperar)

agua regia

aguijón m -- bee's sting

ajada pos_a

ajeno pos_a — somebody else’s; other people’s

ají crillo -- a type of hot chile

ají pico de loro - a type of hot chile - seen in Panama

ajinomoto -- Costa Rica - food word

ajuste m -- in RAE

alborotado — in a state of excitement or confusion

álbum (disambig: album)

alcaldesa --- female mayor, mayoress; wife of mayor

alcaldía -- in RAE

aleta -- fin, flipper

aletartgado -- NOT in babelfish. Comes from letargo, be sleepy, slow

alhucema (agua de ~)

aliñado

allanar -- to smoothe, to make something plain and easy

almádenas -- tups??

almendrado pos_a -- NOT in babelfish, in RAE.

almohadilla -- a name for (#); little almohada

almojábano -- some kind of food in Panama. NOT in RAE

alocadamente -- wildly

alquitrán m -- tar

alumbrado m -- lighting

alusiva -- allusive

amañado -- tricked. Votes can be amañandos, for example. Dicc. Oxford Pocket says "comfortable" is this error or dialectal? seems dialectal.

amarillento pos_a -- a bit yellow

amenazante pos_a -- threatening

amol m -- in RAE

amole m -- in RAE

amontonadero m -- not in babelfish or RAE. very dialectal! but which dialect?

amortajada – shrouded

amueblado pos_a -- furnished

anafórico -- from anáfora (Anaphore)

anafrito

anarcosindicalista -- in RAE. anarchist? cf: anarchista

anduvo -– irregular past form of andar

angosto pos_a -- narrow

anhelar -- yearn for

antiinmigrante

añico -- in plural, pieces, destruction

añorar — miss (syn: extrañar)

apacible -- calmed, quiet, comfortable, nice

se apaciguar — calm down

apaciguar — appease

apelmazado

apelontonado pos_a -- apelotonado is correct. this is probably Hippietrail's transcription error but still needs to be checked in case it's a variant

apelotonado -- crowded together

aperos -- NOT in babelfish

apodo m -- nickname

apogeo -- apogee

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aporte m – contribution

apresto -- preparation

apretadita -- food or snack in Costa Rica

aprovechar

aprovecharse -- take profit of something, take advantage, exploit

apurar -- worry (syn: preocupar)

aquél pronoun -- that one

arañazo -- scratch

arbitrariedad f something arbitrary or unfair, arbitraryness

archipiélago

archivador -- filing cabinet?

archivo -- file of papers or on a computer, not a tool

arcón -- big kind of box to put clothes or swords

arepa -- Costa Rica - pancake

argolla f -- rounded part of a chain

arma de cacería -- kind of weapon

arquear -- to be nauseated

arrabal m -- neighbourhood, specially peripheral and poor

arracache

arraigo -- root (cf: raíz). arraigo is metaphorical, while raíz can be physical or metaphorical

arranque -- starting

arrasa -- devastate

arrebatar -- snatch

arreglado -- food or snack in Costa Rica, perhaps same as empanada arreglada

arrime m -- in RAE, comes from arrimar

arrodillarse -- kneel down

arveja

asaltante -- from asaltar

asceta -- ascetic?

aseo -- both the act of washing oneself and the place (cf arch. en. "to do one's toilet"), bathroom

aserradero

así y todo -- in RAE, even so (many senses)

asma f -- as with "agua", a feminine noun which takes the masculine article "el". is there a convenient name for this to use for a category?

asnejón -- not in babelfish, VERY dialectal form

asórbico -- NOT in RAE

asomar(se) -- to lain

asqueroso pos_a -- in RAE, very disgusting

asta -- horn

astucia f -- some kind of trick

-ata

atado -- in RAE. form of atar

atadura -- the act of atar

atan -- tie (syn: ligar)

atanor m -- NOT in babelfish, in RAE.

atarjeas f -- in RAE

aterciopelado pos_a -- in RAE, made of terciopelo, velvet

ateridos -- plural, people who are cold, freezing

atiborrar -- to feed too much, to make someone fed up with food

atildado -- old word, very proud clothing

-ato

atolondrado -- confused

atónito -- confused, admired

atosigar

atrabiliario

atrayentes -- plural, attracting

atropello -- upsetting

atuendos -- in RAE

audífono m -- hearing aid

auscultar -- auscultate

autolote -- where cars are sold: car yard

aventajar -- surpass

aventón -- dialectal

avestruz m -- in RAE

en ayunas -- without having eaten anything

azafata -- stewardess, in medieval ages the maid of queen (handmaid?)

azahar -– orange blossom

-azgo

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baho italbrac|Nicaragua -- a stew made from beef and yucca

balboa (needs Spanish)

barajado pos_a -- shuffled

bajeza f -- in RAE

baladí -- trivial

balazo

en balde -- in RAE

baleada -- NOT in RAE. sited at La Mesilla, Guatemala and throughout Honduras - snack made from beans, sour cream, and cheese, sometimes with chirmol / chismol in a Mexican-style flour tortilla. A version with egg is called a bolibaleada or boli baleada in the west, in the east egg is a standard ingredient.

balneario m -- place like a spa, where you can rest and have treatments

balsero -- somebody who arrives on a balsa, a boat person

bamba -- flip-flop, thong (aus)

bambalina -- border, used only in theatres (cf: frontera)

bandolero -- brigand

baqueano

barbería -- (Guatemala) barber shop. c.f. peluquería? The two terms seem to coexist in most countries where a barbería is for men and a peluquería is for everybody, except I've never seen a barbería in any part of Mexico.

barbilla f — chin

barquilla -- cone

barracón -- large cabin

barrido pos_a -- sweeping

barrocanrolera -- NOT in RAE. invented blend of other words

basquiña f

batata (syn: camote, see also: ñame)

batido -- kind of milkshake in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (syns or see also: licuado, malteada)

baúl m — trunk; trunk / boot (or a car)

bejuco -- vine

benzoato -- benzoate

bergsoniano -- NOT in RAE. eponym. adjective from Bergosn, the author

berrinchudo -- collloquial adjective, comes from berrinche

berro -- food word in Panama?

berro chino

bicoca -- bargain

bienaventuranza f -- what Jesus says on the mountain (the poor, the good...)

biñuelo m -- italbrac|Panama a deep fried snack of yucca with some meat inside. (syns: carimañola, enyucada). NOT in RAE

biocombustible

bisturí m -- scalpel

blockera, blokera -- not in RAE, place selling cement blocks in guatemala

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bocapierna f -- NOT in RAE. americanism

bofe -- food word in Panma

boicotear -- to boycott

bóiler -- boiler, used by Carlos Fuentes

boletero

bolibaleada or boli baleada -- NOT in RAE. Western Honduras, a baleada with egg. see also boli

bolillito m -- a small bolillo bread roll in Mexico

bolillo m -- bobbin; a type of bread roll in Mexico

bolita -- meatball (syn: albóndiga?)

boricua f

borla -- the end of a curtain rope

borojó -- a fruit from the border region of Panama and Colombia. NOT in RAE

borrachera -- drunkenness

boruca f -- in RAE

bostezo m -- yawn

botiquín m -- in RAE, where you can put medecines

botonadura -- set of buttons

braga -- woman's slip

braguetas — fly / flies (UK) (of trousers etc)

bramar -- to cry, to shout, especially animals

bramido m -- in RAE, the noun of bramar

brecha pos_n -- divide (specially "digital divide"), breach?

azahar

brete

brial m

bribón m -- bad guy, old fashioned

brindar pos_v -- to make chin chin with glasses to wish luck - to toast

brioso -- in RAE. with power

brotar -- appear; sprout; bud; gush

brote m -- the noun of brotar

brozal m

bruces -- in RAE (caer de bruces o darse de bruces). a phrase meaning with the mouth in floor, door, etc

budín -- a type of cake/pie/dessert in La Palma, El Salvador. in RAE. variant of pudin

bucle m -- in RAE

buena estrella – lucky star?

buhonero -- in RAE. A person who sells things on the streets. (syn: vendedor ambulante)

bulto m — shape; package

a bulto — roughly

buñuelo m -- in RAE

burgués m -- from town

burlón pos_a -- mocking

burlona -- mocking

butifarra -- a kind of sausage

butírica -- NOT in RAE. very dialectal

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caballada f

caballeriza f -- stable

cabestrillo -- when you broke your arm you put it in cabestrillo with the shoulder - sling?

cabestro -- cabestro

cabrilleo -- NOT in babelfish

cacareo m -- the noise that hens make

cacería f -- in RAE

cachete m -- in RAE. smack

cacizagos m plural -- not in babelfish

cadejo

cafetalera: coffee pot

cafetín m -- in RAE

cafres m plural -- colloquialism

cainita pos_a -- in RAE

calala -- NOT in RAE, fruit in Nicaragua (syn: maracuyá)

calcomanía -- cartoons that kids stick on their hands, made of ink and water, usually found in sweets

caliche

cáliga f -- in RAE

calina f -- haze

callejonear -- NOT in RAE. dialectal form: going around streets

cambur

camellón -- ridge

camote (syn: batata, see also: ñame)

campal pos_a -- pitched

campechano -- frank; related to Campeche

campeón -- champion; war hero

campeonato -- championship

campestre -- rustic

canilla

cáñamo -- in RAE

cañonazo -- sound or shoot of a cañón (cannon)

cañoneó -- past form of cañonear, shot cañones (not very used)

capitalino -- pertaining to a capital, also said of people

carambola f -- italbrac|Costa Rica star fruit, carambola (syn: fruta china). in RAE

caraota

carbonatado pos_a -- carbonated

carbunco

carcomido -- decayed (syn: podrido?)

carencia f -- in RAE

carey -- a material, typically used for the hard frames of glasses and so on, old

carimañola f -- italbrac|Panama a deep fried snack of yucca with some meat inside. (syns: biñuelo, enyucada). NOT in RAE

carnoso pos_a

carpa f -- tent (cf tienda)

carpintero m -- carpinter; woodpecker

carrete -- of photos

carretela -- a type of coach

carrizo m -- italbrac|Panama drinking straw

carroña -- carrion?

cas m (needs Spanish) -- italbrac|Costa Rica A type of tree and its fruit, Psidium freidrichsthalianum

casa cural -- in RAE

casado -- italbrac|Costa Rica a meal served for lunch or dinner based on rice and beans (separate, not gallo pinto), with a meat or eggs and extras such as plaintain, picadillo, and salad (see also: pinto). Also seen in one restaurant in Nicaragua

cascabeleo -- noise of cascabel

cascamiento m -- in RAE

cascarrón m -- eggshell

casero -- also a noun used to refer to some type of food in Nicaragua

caserón m -- big house

castaño m -- many senses: a kind of tree, kind of brown colour...

castrense

catear -- colloquial form of "fail an exam" - flunk?

catedrático -- university teacher with prestige

catire

catre m -- bad bed, for example of soldiers

caudillo (needs Spanish)

cazón m -- in RAE, type of fish

cebada -- barley

cebollana -- a vegetable seen in Panama. spring onion?

ceibeño m -- somebody from La Ceiba, Honduras

centésimo (needs Spanish) -- coin equal to 1/100th of a balboa in Panama - possibly of other Latin American currencies. cent. (see also: centavo)

centolla -- a kind of crustacean

cerrazón f -- overcast sky

cérvix

ceso -- NOT in RAE or BDE, seen on food shop sign in Tuxtla Gtz, Chiapas, Mexico

-ceta -- diminutive suffix

-cete -- diminutive suffix

cevichería f -- place selling ceviche

chapaleta

ciénaga f -- dump? bog? marsh? swamp?

cifa -- NOT in RAE. very dialectal form of ...?

-cilla -- diminutive suffix

-cillo -- diminutive suffix

cimbrantes

cimiento m -- the basis of a building under floor, foundation?

cineasta m -- film director

cinto m

ciñe -- form of ceñir

círculo vicioso -- vicious circle

circunciso – NOT in babelfish. circumcised

cirio m -- wax candle

cirquero -- in RAE

-cita -- diminutive suffix

-cito -- diminutive suffix

cítrico -- citric

claveteadas -- NOT in RAE. nailed, nailed together

clavetear -- in RAE verb. to nail, to nail together

clavo m -- in RAE. nail

clientela f -- clientele

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clueca pos_a -- broody. also noun, a kind of hen

coartar pos_vt -- in RAE

cobertizo -- shed

coctelería -- NOT in RAE, a shop/stall that sells (seafood) cocktails. plenty of Google hits

cochinita -- a mexican food term. see also pibil

cocktelería -- NOT in RAE, seen twice in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. Plenty of Google hits. a shop/stall that sells (seafood) cocktails.

cocomal or cocomalt -- a drink in Costa Rica

cocotero m -- coconut tree

cofia f -- in RAE. a white item worn on the head by maids

cofre: box; hood, bonnet

coleccionar -- collect

coletilla -- in RAE

colmada -- overwhelmed

colmillo m -- fang? tusk?

colorante -- artifical colouring agent

comadre -- in RAE

comensal m -- every person invited to a dinner or lunch, formal word. invitees?

comentarista -- comes from comentar, a person who makes comments (in books or in press). commentator?

comezón f -- in RAE

comino m (needs Spanish) -- in RAE

comiteco -- person from Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico

cómodo -- comfortable

compadecerse — feel sorry for

complot m -- in RAE

comprobación f

concentrado m pos_a -- many sense, to be absorbed by a task; concentrated (as juice) etc

concubinarios – NOT in babelfish. from concubina, concubine

condimento -- condiment, spice

confite -- lolly, sweet, candy

confitería -- sweet shop

confortable -- comfortable

confusión -- confusion

cono -- cone

consabido -- usual

consigna -- slogan

contante -- cash

contestar -- answer

contienda f -- fight

contrabandista m -- smuggler?

contrasentido -- NOT in babelfish, means something antithetic

contubernio -- conspiracy

copaneco -- from Copán, Honduras

copete m -- in RAE

copinol

corpachón -- not in babelfish. big body

correaje m

correazo m -- hit with a correa

corregidor -- a kind of politician, specially in the Americas

corretiza

cortaplumas m

corvina -- a type of fish

coscorrón m -- in RAE

cosmetología pos_n -- in RAE

cosquilleo -- derived from cosquilla

costarriqueñismo -- a regionalism of Costa Rica

costosa -- expensive (syn: caro?)

costumbrismo -- in RAE

cotilleo m -- gossip. see also: chisme

creó

crespo — pos_a curly; m curl

criadero m

crotaloteo m

cuanto -- whatever

cuánto -- how much

cuartilla f — sheet of paper

cuarto (missing sense, or subsense) -- italbrac|Panama coin equal to 25 centésimos de balboa or a US quarter since the currencies and the coins are interchangeable in Panama. (syn: cora in El Salvador). sense NOT in RAE

cubista -- cubist. derived from cubismo

cuchitril m -- in RAE

cucurucho -- cone

cuajada -- in RAE

cuarentón -- person in their 40s, usually a bit derogatory

cuartel m -- house of army

cuatrero -- NOT in babelfish, in RAE

cuento m -- story

cuerda f — rope

cueriza f

culantro -- Central American spelling of cilantro

culata f -- back part of a gun

culebra f -- snake

culebrear pos_vi -- in RAE

cupo -- in RAE

curtida f -- like coleslaw, used to top pupusas in El Salvador (or is it cortida?)

cuscatleco -- in RAE

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chacina f -- in RAE

chacinería f -- deli

chafarote -- NOT in babelfish

chalupa -- a type of crude boat; food word - Mexico and Costa Rica, not sure if it's the same item in both countries. also a food item sold at Taco Bell in the USA.

chambonada f

chamo -- kid, buddy

chamoy -- NOT in RAE, defs found with Google: "chile, con limon, sal y vinagre y por lo general le pones fruta, o con papas", "un dulce, que sabe como agridulce y que te deja asi es muy rico, pero es un saborcito ke no a todos les gusta, no pica, pero si como mucho puede irritar tu pansita". Seems to be derived from Cantonese "see mui", the 2nd character of which means plum.

chan m italbrac|Costa Rica (needs Spanish) -- a type of herb, Salvia chia and its seed used to make a refreshing drink

changarro m -- (Mexico) small shop, store

chape m -- in RAE

chapalear

chapín m -- in RAE

chapoteadero m -- in RAE, shallow pool for kids to splash around in

charcutería f -- deli

charretera f -- in RAE

chayote m (needs Spanish) italbrac|Costa Rica a kind of edible plant, Sechium edule

chelada -- not in RAE, drink of beer, salt, and ice. seen and queried on menu in Playa de Sol, Chiapas, Mexico

Chepe -- nickname of San Jose, Costa Rica

chía

chicha -- colloquial, meat, flesh, important thing; italbrac|Panama some kind of drink. in RAE

chicheme n -- italbrac|Panama a certain kind of chicha

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chilate -- italbrac|El Salvador|Honduras|Nicaragua|Panama in RAE. a refreshing drink made from toasted corn and chile, of a similar consistency to atol

chile mundial

chile panameño

chilera -- type of spicy salsa in Costa Rica? (related: chile)

chilote

chilpachole -- not in RAE or BDM, method of preparing jaiba seen and queried on menu in Playa de Sol, Chiapas, Mexico

chiltoma –- capsicum?

chimichurri -- a kind of hot sauce in Panama?

chimpanchole -- rarer variant spelling of chilpachole

chiqueadores plural -- in RAE

chirmol, chismol, chimol m (Guatemala City, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua) -- a type of salsa that looks like what in Mexico is called pico de gallo, in RAE

chistera -- NOT in babelfish, it's a kinf od old hat, typical of magicians

chiverre m -- NOT in RAE. some kind of food in Costa Rica (seen as an empanada ingredient). Dicc. Histórico del español de CR says "cicracoyote, Cucurbita ficifolia"

chocolatería -- shop or stall which sells chocolate and other sweets / candy / lollies. in RAE

choripán m -- a sausage (chorizo) baked inside a pastry roll (pan. Like a sausage roll in Australia. in RAE

choriqueso -- not in RAE or DBM, mixture of Mexican chorizo and queso

chotis singular -- in RAE, kind of regional Madrid dancing

chucheca f -- italbrac|Costa Rica A species of large oyster (see: ostión)

chuletería

churrasco m -- in RAE, meat prepared in a certain way

churrasquería f

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d’ (needs Spanish) -- NOT in RAE, seen on many signs in Chiapas and Guatemala, is it a variant of de, or some Mayan influence? YES, comes from DE but is not accepted

dadaísmo -- in RAE literary and artistic period, influenced by Dada

dadaísta -- in RAE, person belonging to dadaísmo

daditos

dagas plural of daga, kind of knife

dársenas f plural part of harbours

décimo (missing sense) -- italbrac|Panama coin equal to 10 centesimos de balboa or a US dime since the currencies and the coins are interchangeable in Panama. specific sense NOT in RAE

decomisar -- in RAE, police "steals" legally sometehing

déficit -- defecit. antonym: superávit

deglutir -- swallow, very formal

delirante pos_a -- delirious

demás -- lo ~ = the rest

deprovista -- NOT in babelfish, NOT in RAE. mistake for desprovista?

derrame m -- in RAE

derredor -- same as alrededor

derretido m -- italbrac|Panama a snack consisting of grated cheese toasted in a bread roll

derrumbamiento m — collapse, demolition

derrumbe m — collapse, demolition

des- prefix, meaning dis-

desafuero -- violation

desagravio -- make amends for

desahogar -- relieve

desaire -- snub

desamparo -- neglect

desangrarse -- to bleed to death

desaprobar -- disapprove

desafiante pos_a -- a person who likes to defy other, altive attitude

desafiar -- defy

desahuciar -- in RAE - police or jury takes someone out of home because he or she has not payed debts

desbaratar — mess up; undo; ruin

desbocar -- in RAE, applied to horses

descarado -- impudent

descastado

descremada kind of milk, light

desdicha f -- unhappiness (formal)

desenlaces -- outcomes

deseó -- past form of desear

desgarrador -- heartrendering

desgastar: wear out

deshilado pos_a -- in RAE. "carne deshilada" on Salvadorian menu.

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desidia -- laziness; spleen

desmandar -- rescind (an order)

desmelenar -- literally to umcomb hair, means to have big party with no control

desmigajar -- crumble

desparramba -- colloquial form

despedazar -- ... to pieces, for example a dog can tear a dead body to pieces

despeñáramos (despeñar?) YES!!

despido -- the act of firing or sacking somebody from a job.

despilfarro m -- wastefulness

despojado -- undressed

despojarse

destapador -- bottle opener. syn: abreboltellas

destello -- a short light, brigten

destierro m -- in RAE

destrozo -- destruction

desván m -- attic

desvelar: keep awake; reveal

develación f -- in RAE

develar -- reveal

desventurada -- NOT in babelfish, in RAE

un día de estos – one of these days?

diaplejía -- not in RAE, some illness

dicho -- saying; form of decir

dieciochesco -- relating to the 18th century

digestión -- digestion?

dígrafo -- digraph (not used for diphthong or ligature)

dióxido -- dioxide

dique m -- in RAE

dis- (needs Spanish)

disfrazado -- disguised

disódico -- NOT in RAE

disparejo -- in RAE

dispendioso -- expensive

domeñar -- in RAE

doña -- in RAE, means Mrs.

dorado (missing sense) -- a type of fish

doró

dril m -- in RAE

drupa f -- in RAE

dubitación -- in RAE old word

ducho -- skillful

duende m -- in RAE kind of dwarf

dueño - master

-dura -- in RAE

duró

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-ea -- in RAE

-ear -- verb-forming suffix

-ececilla -- diminutive suffix

-ececillo -- diminutive suffix

-ececita -- diminutive suffix

-ececito -- diminutive suffix

-ecilla -- diminutive suffix

-ecillo -- diminutive suffix

-ecita -- diminutive suffix

-ecito -- diminutive suffix

edecanes

-edura -- ver. of -dura

efectivo -- cash

embadurnado -- full of (outside), for example chocolate. covered in?

embobar -- in RAE

emborrado -- NOT in babelfish

emboscada

embriaguez -- drunkenness

empanada arreglada -- food or snack in Costa Rica, perhaps same as arreglada

emparedado -- (Costa Rica) a sandwich on a long bread rool. sub etc

emparejar -- match

empastado -- filled with paste

empecinarse – try really hard against reasonable

empeñar – to pawn

empeñarse – to insist

empeño -- seen in Honduras

empinado pos_a — steep

emprendedor -- entrepreneur

encaje (de bolillo)

encallar -- run aground

encaminado

enchilar -- in RAE

encrespar pos_v -- in RAE

encrucijada -- crossroads

endiablada pos_a –- bedevilled

endocarpio m -- in RAE

enduricido

enfadado -- angry

engrudo -- paste

enjabonar(se)

enjambre m -- swarm of bees

enjuntos

enmarañadas -- confused, messy

ensanchar -- does it mean "to be high and mighty" or widen or both? (related: ancho)

ensartado -- in RAE

ensimismado — lost / absorbed in thought; engrossed

ensopado

enteco pos_a -- in RAE

entintado -- inked

entreverado -- in RAE

ensueño -- dream, syn & rel sueño

entrecruzamiento -- NOT in babelfish, in RAE

en vez de -- instead of

envoltorio -- wrapper

enyucada f -- italbrac|Panama a deep fried snack of yucca with some meat inside. (syns: biñuelo, carimañola). NOT in RAE

-eña

-eño

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-eo -- in RAE

-era -- in RAE

erizar pos_vt -- in RAE

-erizar suffix

-ero -- in RAE

escabeche -- in RAE

escabullía -- past form of escabullirse

escalinata f -- in RAE

escalopin or is it escalopín?

escama f -- grudge

escaramuza -- skirmish

escasas f plural

escaso pos_a -- in RAE

esclava -- female slave; a kind of silver bracelet

escoba -- broom

escollo -- stumbling block

escolta -- bodyguards, protection (syn: guardeespaldas?)

escudilla f

escueto pos_a short, specially used with words

eslabón -- link

eslogan -- slogan

espantapajaros m -- scarecrow

espejuelo m -- in RAE

espeso pos_a – thick, syn: grueso

espigada pos_a -- in RAE

escaquear -- colloquial, to try not work even if it's one's duty

estera f -- kind of carpet

estiércol m -- in RAE

estirar pos_vt to hang, to make force with a rope

estirpe -- ancestry

estrago -- damage

estremecedora -- frightening

estremecer -- shake

estribo -- stirrup

estricnina

estridentista -- NOT in RAE, used by Carlos Fuentes, personal word coming from estruendo

estropajo m -- scourer; loofah

estropear -- spoil

estruendo m -- roar

estruendoso adjective form of estruendo

-eta -- diminutive suffix

-ete -- diminutive suffix

eternizarse

etimológico -- in RAE

expoventa f

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facha f — (the) look (of); (a real) sight. also a political word, coming from fascismus

faldón m

falsario pos_a -- in RAE

fanfarria -- scandal, noise

fardo

farol m -- kind of lamp, also lies in games

farolito -- diminutive of farol

farsante m -- in RAE

favorecedor -- RAE defines as "que favorece"

faz f -- face

fécula -- in RAE

felpa f -- in RAE

felpudo m -- welcome mat in front of houses

fichero -- file (paper, not tool)

fieras f plural -- of fiera, wild animal

filiqueso -- NOT in RAE or BDM, seen on menu in Puerto Arista, Chiapas, Mexico

fistol m -- in RAE

flechado -- comes from flecha, arrow

flojedad f -- in RAE

flojo pos_a -- lazy, loose

fluvial pos_a -- river

fogoso -- ardent

fogueado

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folletín m -- in RAE

forajido -- in RAE

fornicio -- in RAE

fosfato -- phosphate

fósil m -- fossil

frac -- in RAE

francofonía -- used in Honduran newspaper

frasquito m -- NOT in RAE, small frasco

frialdad f -- coldness

frigorífico -- fridge, form used in Spain

fril -- NOT in RAE. one of various names for a small fish on the pacific coast of mexico. may be a local name borrowed from zapotec. other names are robalo, lisa though those seem to be chiefly for distinct species

fritanga f -- in RAE

fronterizo -- related to borders

fructosa -- in RAE

fructoso -- fruitful

fruta china -- italbrac|Panama star fruit, carambola. (syn: carambola)

fugarse – flee, escape, run away

fúldiga -- used in translation of Demian. very very formal

fusilamiento

fusilar -- to kill with a gun, official execution (to execute by firing squad?)

futurista -- in RAE. realtive to future

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galán m — attractive man; suitor

galantina -- in RAE

galardón m -- award

gallero

gallo -- italbrac|Costa Rica a kind of food. Lonely Planet Central America says it's like a sandwich but using tortilla rather than bread. A bilingual menu in San José today described it as "a little plate of different food with tortilla"

galón -- gallon; stripe

galope m -- gallop

garapiñado -- (Costa Rica) way of cooking or preparing food

garete m

garibaldina f -- in RAE

garrapateo -- scribble

garzo pos_a

gasa f — gauze; bandage

gaseosa f -- soda, pop, sodapop, fizzy drink, soft drink, lemonade (syn: refresco)

gavilán -- type of bird

gelatina f -- jelly / Jell-O

gentuza f -- bad people (in RAE)

gerente m f — manager (needs Spanish)

gises plural

godo -- in RAE. old people from Europe, Goth

golear pos_v -- to make a lot of goals to the other team

goleta f -- in RAE. a kind of old boat

golosina -- seen in Honduras. sweet. syn of dulce or pastel or all things sweet?

goloso m — sweet tooth

gordita f -- NOT in RAE. familiar word for fat

gorrón m -- in RAE

grafía -- in RAE, letter. syn: letra?

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granadería -- NOT in RAE. form of granada (weapon)

granadilla

grandulón -- in RAE

greña -- in RAE

gritería -- comes from gritar

guacamaya f -- macaw

guacamol m -- in RAE. variant of guacamole in Central America and Cuba.

guacho -- food word in Panama

guajillo -- dialectal

guajiro m

guanábana f -- in RAE. a certain tree and its fruit, Anona montana. At least in Costa Rica also known as guanaba

guapinol

guardabarranca -- NOT in RAE. a type of bird in honduras

guardaespaldas m -- bodyguard

goleta f -- kind of old boat (17th century)

guarnición f -- two meanings: what goes with main dishes (potatoes, salad...) garnish is probably cognate if not translation; and kind of army

guarnicionero

guarura -- in RAE

guayaba f -- in RAE

güero pos_a, m -- in RAE

guiñar — wink

guineo

guisado pos_a, m -- in RAE

guiso -- ellabored cooking

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habichuela -- kind of bean

hacha m -- a tool for cutting down trees. axe / ax? the expression "ser un hacha" means "be great doing something"

haré -- future of hacer (irregular)

hartar -- to be satiated

hartazgo m -- noun of hartarse

hava -- NOT in RAE, irregular verb form?, in my copy of Cien años de soledad perhaps a mistake

hazana -- in RAE

hebilla -- buckle

helecho m — fern

hendidura f -- in RAE, kind of hole

hepática -- adjective, realted to hígado (liver)

herrumbre -- comes from hierro, when time passes

hervidero m -- swarm

hiel

hilacha f -- shred

hipospadia

hiriente -- harmful

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hitleriana pos_a coming from Hitler (eponym)

hito -- in RAE (needs Spanish)

holgazanería

holgazanes -- lazy

(hecho un) hombrazo

hospitalaria -- someone who welcomes you in her house, femenine form

huacal m (jacal?)

huarache -- sandal, especially the kind made from old tyres in mexico, possibly also flip-flop

huarachudo -- in RAE

hucha f -- pig for coins

huehueteco -- person from Heuhuetenango, Guatemala

huestes f plural

huevos picados -- (Costa Rica) scrambled eggs

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ideario -- in RAE

-idura -- ver. of -dura

-illa -- diminutive suffix

-illo -- diminutive suffix

impavidez f -- quality that some people have when they don't show emotions in face

ímpetu m -- in RAE

impúdico -- in RAE

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-ín -- diminutive suffix

-ina (needs Spanish) -- diminutive suffix

incauto -- innocent who doesn't take protections and is tricked

incipiente -- in RAE

inconcebible -- inconceivable

incunable -- book printed before 1500

incursión -- incursion?

indio viejo

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inerme pos_a -- in RAE

inframundo m -- underworld?. NOT in RAE

ínfula

inmundicia f

inmutarse – no ~ = not bat an eyelid

-ino

instaurar -- to form (a monarchy)

intelectualista

intemperie f -- be a la intemperie, without roof - homeless?

intrincado

invento -- invention (disambig: inventó)

irguió -- irregular past tense of erguir

irrebatible pos_a

-ísima -- superlative suffix

isleño -- islander

-ismo

-ita -- diminutive suffix

-ito -- diminutive suffix

-iza

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jalisciense

jara f -- in RAE

jaspeadas -- f pl. adj.

jeranquía f -- not in babelfish

jicarazos -- in RAE

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jiote -- missing sense: a type of tree in central america - Bursera simaruba, gumbo-limbo tree

jondo pos_a -- not in babelfish. "cante jondo" kind of flamenco songs

juego de llaves

junicuiles -- NOT in RAE. very dialectal

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kco. -- italbrac|Panama abbreviation for kiosco

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lacio pos_a -- in RAE, used with hair, meaning smooth

lacrimosa -- in RAE from lágrima, adjective, formal

lactosa -- lactose

ladear -- to tip

ladrillo m — brick

lagaña pos_n -- sleep (eye snot). Both spellings are accepted by RAE and both are in my Dicc. Oxford Pocket

lancero -- in RAE

landó -- in RAE, kind of car, old

langostino m -- a type of crustacean. (related: langosta)

latinajos -- derogative word to say "expressions in latin"

latinización -- in RAE

lavamanos m -- in RAE

lebranche m -- NOT in RAE - french?

lecho -- bed (cf cama)

lecitina -- quimical substance

legaña pos_n -- sleep (eye snot). Both spellings are accepted by RAE and both are in my Dicc. Oxford Pocket

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lejanía pos_n

lema m - many senses: each word of dictionary - lemma; also a sentence that guides your life - motto?

lenguaraces

lenguaraz pos_a -- who talks too much, old word. talkative? chatterbox?

lenteja -- kind of food, little,. brown, contain Fe

leñera -- place to store wood, old word

leñoso pos_a -- in RAE

leontina

levantamiento -- when an army or people goes against power

liderato

limon criollo

limosna f – some loose change

limosnera m f — begger

linaza -- a drink in costa Rica

línea blanca -- not in RAE, white goods

lisa f -- in RAE, smooth

liso — flat; smooth; plain; straight

liviano - light, not heavy, formal word

loable

lona f -- you put on places, as in parties (placecard?)

longaniza pos_n -- various types of sausage depending on the region, see es.wikipedia

loroco -- A pupusa ingredient in Copán, Honduras. I was told it's a kind of requesón. See also ayote

lote m

lotificar -- in RAE

lotificación f -- in RAE. seen many times in El Salvador

loza -- kind of mud

luctuosa pos_a

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llamarse -- to be called

llanamente -- adverb form of llano

llaneza -- quality of speaking llano, easy, be simple and frank

llantén

llantera -- to cry a lot a lot, noun

llanura -- plains

llavero -- something to wear keys, a keyring?

llevadero -- easy to carry, referred to psycological things

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lloriquear --to cry a little

lloriqueo -- noun of lloriquear

lloroso -- a person who has cried

llovedizo

lloviznar -- to rain a bit

llueve -- form of verb llover (to rain)

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macabil -- not in RAE or BDE, Google hits, seen and queried on menu in Playa de Sol, Chiapas, Mexico; type of fish

machaca -- kind of worker, badly payed; also a food word seen on a menu in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

machacado pos_a

macilento -- in RAE

maciza -- in RAE, lots of senses, one of them is "pretty", colloquial

maculada -- spotted

macular

madeja f -- in RAE

maduro -- mature; ripe. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica also noun = plátano maduro

mafa -- a type of long twistry crunchy snack

magdalena (Guatemala City) -- seen on a menu, in RAE. eaten for breakfast, from a French word

maguey -- in RAE

malapodán -- NOT in RAE

Malasia -- Malaysia

maleza -- bad herbs and plants

malgastar pos_v -- to waste

malinchista pos_a -- in RAE

malla f -- mesh

malsano -- unhealthy

maluco, malucho -- under the weather

malversación

la mamá de Tarzán -- the cat's meow/pyjamas/whiskers, the bee's knees, etc

mamasanta f -- in RAE

mamey m -- in RAE

mamón m -- italbrac|Costa Rica a type of tree and its fruit, Mammea americana

mampostería -- rubblework

manchas f plural of mancha, spot

manchemantales m -- a type of sauce in Mexico

manco pos_a -- in RAE

mancornado

mandinga -- in RAE

manecilla f -- it's the thing you use to open door

manejo -- used, specially used for machines, second hand?

maduro -- (Costa Rica) same as plátano maduro

manga -- (missing sense) a fruit or vegetable in Costa Rica

manifestó -- past form of manifestar

maniquí m — mannequin, dummy

mansión f -- mansion, great house

mantilla f (needs Spanish)

manzo (needs Spanish)

mara f -- (needs Spanish) in RAE, gang (some countries, syn pandilla)

marero -- in RAE, related to a gang, a gang member (some countries)

mariscal -- over general and coronel

marmahón -- couscous? Seen in Honduran newspaper article about North African cuisine

martilleo -- noise made with hammer

matarife m -- in RAE

mazo -- food word in Panama

mazorca -- food word in Panama. a kind of maíz or something similar to maíz

mecedor

mechón m plural -- tuft

medrar -- to go up in society or a company thanks to plans

melena -- in RAE. long hair

melocha pos_n -- not in babelfish

mentar -- in RAE. to speak about

marsellés -- in RAE, from Marsella, the city of France

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martillo -- hammer

martingalas – NOT in babelfish. colloquial form

mascarón -- mask, used in mesoamerican architecture rather than the usual máscara. Also used in boats

matarratón m -- NOT in RAE. compound, not accepted, comes from matar and ratón (kill and mouse). used by Gabriel García Márquez in Memoria de mis putas tristes. mousetrap? rat poison? mouser?

matorral m - (the) scrub

mecedor -- in RAE, a kind of furniture you can sit and move

mecha f – wick, fuse

médano m

medroso -- who has fear, very formal

melaza

mentón

mercadería f -- in RAE, seen in Guatemala and Honduras, gets Google hits, things to buy, colloquial

merced -- favour / favor

merendero -- seen on shop signs in western Honduras

mermelada f -- jam / jelly

merodeo -- to go around

mesocarpio m -- in RAE, anatomy

mezquina -- synomin of ruin

michelada -- NOT in RAE or BDE, very common drink in Mexico based on beer and spicy sauce

microbusero -- driver of microbús, small bus

mido f -- NOT in RAE. perhaps midón

migajón -- not in babelfish. augmentative form of miga

miliciano m

mingitorio noun, m -- in RAE. old and formal word to say WC

miniestra -- NOT in RAE

minuta -- missing sense: Ëa kind of drink in El Salvador

mirón -- onlooker

mirra -- NOT in babelfish, myrrh

mitin -- meeting

mocetón -- not in babelfish, familiar word coming from mozo

mocho -- in RAE

modistería -- related to moda?

mojito -- kind of cocktail with mint and certain other ingredients

molleja -- some kind of meat from a chicken, or a food or meal made from some part of a chicken. seen in Panama. in RAE

monacales pos_a -- relative to monastery

monaguillo m – altar boy

mondongo -- m -- in RAE

monseñor m -- in RAE, form to refer to priests

montaraz

montículo m -- mound?

monto m (needs Spanish)

moño m -- in RAE, you tie your hair made a "ball" on neck

moronga

morro m -- in RAE, mouth, specially colloquial or for animals

mortaja f -- in RAE, what you use to veil corps before bury them

mote m (needs Spanish) -- a type of nickname

mozalbete m -- in RAE, old word for boy

mozote m italbrac|Costa Rica a type of grass or herb?? Bidens pilosa

muchedumbre f -- crowd

mudar m, pos_vt -- to change

muladar m

muletilla f -- in RAE, typical phrases people use to help them to think and talk

multitudinario -- with lots of people

mundialista -- relating to a world championship or world champion. in RAE

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nacarada pos_a -- of nácar (what pearls are made of)

nacatamal

naranjilla -- a fruit in Costa Rica (related: naranja)

narvura -- the veins of a leaf

natalicio -- (see also: cumpleaños)

natilla -- sour cream (related: nata, syn: crema cortada)

necedad f -- silly thing, very formal

nervadura -- ribbing

nica -- nickname for a person from Nicaragua, is it also used as an adjective? does it have a masculine form too? (syn: nicaragüense)

niñota -- NOT in RAE. colloquial and derogatory form of niña, not very common

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Noé -- Noah, proper noun

noni or nonis? -- a fruit or vegetable in Costa Rica and Panama

normatividad

novelería f -- in RAE

novelística -- productions of novels of an author or a period

noviazgo m -- engagement

nuégado m -- food seen in El Salvador

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ñame baboso -- variety of yam or sweet potato

ñame diamante -- variety of yam or sweet potato

ñampi -- a fruit or vegetable in Costa Rica

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ocote -- in RAE

ofuscado -- NOT in RAE. if someone is ofuscado they can't think clearly because of anger or confussion

ojal m -- the hole wher you pass button to fasten it

hojaldre (also ojaldre, ojaldra, etc?) -- unleavened wheat flour dough pulled to a rough shape and briefly deep fried. plays a similar role in meals as a tortilla. in RAE?

olán

-ón -- augmentative suffix

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-ona (needs Spanish) -- augmentative suffix

opúsculo

orégano (disambig: oregano)

organillo

oriunda -- native, femenin

-osa -- in RAE

óseo pos_a -- adjective of hueso - bony?

-oso (needs Spanish) -- in RAE

-ota -- augmentative suffix

-ote -- augmentative suffix

otoe -- some kind of vegetable in Panama. NOT in RAE. (see also: yuca; tiquisque - possibly a synonym?)

otorgar -- to award

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pa’ -- colloquial version of "para". not accepted as standard

pachanga -- relaxed party

pache (Guatemala City) -- seen on a menu, NOT in RAE

pachucos m plural

pacoya -- not in RAE. a vegetable in El Salvador.

pagamonedas -- NOT in RAE, seen in Nicaragua possibly a play on tragamonedas, referring to the same thing: a one-armed bandit or poker machine

pajueleándonos (pajuelear?) -- very slang bad word, from pajearse (to masturbate)

palaciega -- related to palacio, palace

paleográfica -- in RAE

paliza -- beating

pambazo m -- NOT in RAE

pandillero -- gang member. syn: marero

panela -- food word found in Panama

pan español -- (Costa Rica) some kind of bread (see also: pan francés)

panga

pañalera

paño de la Verónica -- a place

pañolones

papada

paradisiacal, paradisíacal -- from Eden

pararrayos m -- to prevent lights in a storm

paredón m -- in RAE

parénquima m -- in RAE

parentesco -- any relationship between relatives, of a family

pargo m -- in RAE

parpadeo — blink

parvada -- in RAE

pasacalle m

pasamanería -- Costa Rica - some type of shop / store

paslama

pasmado pos_a -- astonished

pasquín -- in RAE

pastorcillas -- diminutive feminine for pastora

patacón -- a type of coin; a type of bond; italbrac|Nicaragua|Costa Rica|Panama - same as a tostón (Nicaragua): a fat, deep-frid round plantain slice. in RAE

pataleta f -- children do this, crying, no reason...

patraña f -- in RAE

patririo -- NOT in RAE

patrulla f -- round of police

paulatino pos_a -- in RAE. slowly

pavimentación

pavimentar -- to put stones or bircks in streets - to pave. see also: adoquinar

peca: freckle

pecado mortal – mortal sin

pecaminosos -- sinful

pecenista -- related to the Salvadorian political party, the PCN

pedacito m -- small piece

pedazo -- piece, syns trozo, pieza

pedregal -- not in RAE, used by Juan Rulfo

pegatina -- something you can glue

pejibaye m italbrac|Costa Rica a type of palm tree, Guilielma utilis and its fruit which is edible when cooked

peladura -- NOT in babelfish

pelambre f -- in RAE

peldaño m -- step

pelea -- fight

pellejo -- in RAE

pelón -- without hair, familiar word

pelotón

pelusa

penca f

penoso -- laborious

percatar -- to be aware

perejil m — parsley

pereza f -- in RAE

pericarpio m -- in RAE

permanganato

perro caliente -- hot dog

perro de presa -- a dog used to hunt and attack, hound?

persiana -- used in windows to prevent light to enter, made of wood. shutter? venetian blind?

pervivencia -- in RAE

pescadería -- fish shop, fishmonger's. in RAE

pescadilla f -- a kind of fish; also a Mexican snack, the ones I've had so far would be described a "fish tacos" by Americans but not Mexicans

pescozón -- to hit with the fist in the neck or the head, old word

pescozones

pescuezo m -- neck (only of chicken?)

pesebre m — creche, crib

pestaña f -- eyelash

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petates m plural

petimetre -- in RAE

pichel -- pitcher of beer, Costa Rica

pibil pos_a -- in RAE

piadoso pos_a -- pious

piangua -- Costa Rica - food word

pícara -- in RAE

picaresco pos_a -- picaresque

pícaro

pico de gallo -- a type of spicy Mexican salsa

picop -- (Central America) pickup truck (syn: camioneta (Mexico)

piedrimentación

pillastrón -- not in babelfish. invented word, comes from pillastre, meaning pillo

pillo

pilluelos -- diminutive plural of pillo

piloncillo m -- in RAE

pimentón -- some kind of vegetable in Panama. in RAE

pimpinela — pimpernel? -- in RAE

pincho

pingüicas f -- NOT in RAE. dialectal and familiar

pinolillo m italbrac|Costa Rica a drink made from toasted corn flower mixed with cocoa (syn: pinol m)

pinto (sense missing) -- a type of food in Costa Rica

piñuela f italbrac|El Salvador|Costa Rica -- a type of tree, Bromelia pinguin. seen used as a food in el salvador as "atol de piñuela"

pipa -- italbrac|Costa Rica|Panama seems to refer to coconut but may be different from coco in some way

pipí — pee, wee, piddle

pipián m -- in RAE. seen on menu in El Salvador.

pirujo -- (Guatemala) type of crusty bread roll, this sense NOT in RAE

pirujón (Guatemala City) a torta made with a pirujo, NOT in RAE

pito (needs Spanish)

pitahaya f A certain plant, Cereus pitahaya, and its fruit. Central America only or also Mexico, or all Latin America?

pithaya -- NOT in RAE, seen in "Como agua para chocolate", a novel from Mexico; and the Nicaragua section of Lonely Planet Central America. Is this a transcription error for pitahaya? It does get a few thousand Google hits.

pizarra -- blackboard

pleito m — lawsuit; fight

plisar -- in RAE

pluma de indio -- a plant

plumada f

podredumbre -- abstract noun of podrido, rotten, both moral and physical senses. rottenness? putrefaction?

poliglicerol -- NOT in RAE. chemial substance

polirricinoleato -- NOT in RAE, probably "polyricinoleate"

polvareda f — cloud of dust

polvorín m -- in RAE

ponte (needs Spanish)

pormenorizado m -- explained with all details

portaviandas -- in RAE

porvenir: future

posguerra

postizo -- in RAE

postor

preceptor (needs Spanish)

predio m

presidir — preside at/over

prestanombres m singular and plural -- NOT in RAE

pretina f

prever -- anticipate

probar suerte -- to try one's luck?

profundidad -- deepness

profundizado

progreseño

protética -- in RAE

prótesis -- in RAE

provecho

pudibunda pos_a

pudor m (needs Spanish) -- in RAE

pueblecito -- NOT in RAE. small town

puente levadizo -- drawbridge

puerro m -- some kind of vegetable in Costa Rica and Panama. in RAE

pulpería f -- in RAE, (Central America) a small shop / store

pulque -- in RAE

punche

pupusería f -- in RAE, place selling pupusas, a type of snack

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quebraley -- NOT in RAE, invented word coming form quebrar and ley: lawbreaker

quebrantado pos_a-- broken

quebrantar – to break

queque -- cake? Seen in Managua, Nicar (see also: panqueque)

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quequisqe

quesillo -- used for a different type(s) of cheese in Central America than in Mexico where it has similarities to Mozarella

queso derretido

quién -- who?

quisiera -- subjunctive imperfect of querer

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rábano

rabón -- not in babelfish. colloquial

ráfaga -- wind or shoots [shots? bullets?] go by ráfagas. gust?

ramo -- branch

rapada -- shaved

rapado m

rápel -- not in RAE

rappel (needs Spanish) -- not in RAE

raquitismo m

rasca -- form of rascar

rasguño -- scratch

raso m -- flat

rastra f -- in Honduran newspaper seems to be used for semi trailer

raudo -- NOT in babelfish, very quick, formal word

rayar -- in RAE

rebanada -- slice

rebatir -- to counterdebate an argument

rebenque m

rebosante

recadar -- not in babelfish. check if an error for recaudar

recámara -- room or bedroom; firing chamber

recaudar -- collect

rechupete -- not in babelfish

reclamación -- claim

reclamo -- reclamation

recluso -- prisoner

recluta m (needs Spanish) -- recruit

recoger -- gather

recopilar -- collect

récord -- record, sport, you break a time

recostar

recacción -- essay

redactar -- write

reemplazante

reencauchadora

refacción -- spare part

referendo -- referendum

referéndum -- referendum

refrán -- saying

refresquería f -- a refreshment stand or snack bar in some countries including Panama

refrigerador, refrigeradora

regaló -- past tense of regalar, to give a present

regatear pos_v

regidor -- political of a town or departamento

régimen -- diet; a monarchy, republic or similar

regocijó m — delight

reguetón -- NOT in RAE, kind of latin music

rejilla f -- grille, grating

relato -- story

relucir -- shine

relumbrar -- shine

remitente -- in RAE

rellenito m -- in RAE, guatemalan snack

remanso m -- place peaceful, for example in a river or an argument

remate -- kind of football kick

remendado -- mended

remiendo m -- patch

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remolacha -- a fruit or vegetable

remolancha -- possibly an error for remolacha

remolón -- lazy

renegrida -- blackish

renglón -- line

rentar -- rent (syn: alquiler)

repartida pos_a

repique m -- in RAE

repocheta

repollo -- italbrac|Nicaragua|Costa Rica|Panama cabbage (syn: col)

repollo chino -- probably bok choy

reposar -- to rest

reposera

reposo -- peace

repostería -- the art of making cakes; type of bakery or cake shop seen between Honduras and Costa Rica but not further north in the Americas.

repuesto -- spare part

requesón -- in RAE

resbaladera -- type of food in Costa Rica

resbalón -- slide

rescoldo m

respingo -- jump a little because of fear or surprise

resplandecer -- shine

resquicio m -- small part, for example you close a door and let just a "resquicio" open. crack? whisker?

reto m -- challenge

retozar

retraído pos_a -- introverted

reuma m or f

reumatismo m -- ilness of bones

revenchismo -- NOT in RAE (is it possible a confussion with "revanchismo"?)

reventazón -- in RAE

reventón -- party (Latin America); when a tire breaks - puncture?

revestir -- to cover

revisión -- revision

revuelo -- commotion

rezo -- prayer

riego -- act of regar, to water plants

riña -- fight, argument

riña de gallo f

roano pos_a -- in RAE

róbalo, robalo m -- in RAE

rodaja -- slice

rodete m -- in RAE

rol m

rollo primavera -- spring roll. seen in Panama. (syn: taco chino?). NOT in RAE.

rompope m -- in RAE

ronquido pos_n -- snore

rotulación -- signage?

ruana f -- in RAE

rubor m -- blush

rubro

rufo -- in RAE

ruibarbo m, a kind of fish

rumbera f -- not in babelfish, from rumba, kind of music

rutelero

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saborina -- Costa Rica - food word

saborizante

sacar a flote – reflota, put something back on its feet

sacerdocio m -- in RAE

sacristán m -- kind of religious man who helps priests

salchipapas -- type of fast food in Costa Rica (probably: salchichón or salchicha + papa)

salcochar -- to cook with only water and salt

salonero -- a profession - something like a waiter? (related: salón)

salpicón m -- in RAE. In Suchitoto, El Salvador it was a kind of cold shredded meat with herbs. In Oaxaca, Mexico it was cold shredded meat with cilantro, tomato, and onion, used as a topping for memelitas.

salvaguarda f -- safeguard?

sampedrano

sancocho -- food word in Panama. in RAE

sandalia -- sandal

sandinista -- a follower of Sandino, a left-wing leader in Nicaragua

sanguijuelas plural

sansara m

santoral m -- where are the names and the days of saints, book

sarao m -- in RAE

sarna f -- scabies; scab?

secamanos m -- in RAE, hand dryer

sede f — (needs Spanish) -- headquarters

seguramente -- surely

semidescremada -- NOT in RAE. half descremada

seño -- NOT in RAE. colloquial form of señor

sepa -- form of an irregular verb?

sepelio m -- ceremonies for burdening people

sesentón -- in RAE

siembra -- act of planting seeds, sowing?

sigiloso pos_a -- someone who goes slowly and silently

silbar -- whistle

silicio (needs Spanish) -- silicon

simiente f – NOT in babelfish. seed

simón -- a cool way of saying sí in at least Mexico and Costa Rica

simulacro -- maneuvers

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sinapismos

sincronizada f -- mexican snack related to the quesadilla

sindicalista

síndrome m -- syndrome

sirviente -- people whose job is to serve in a house, a bit derogatory. servant? (syn: criado?)

sisa f

sobra

sobrellevar

soda (needs Spanish) -- (Costa Rica) small food or refreshment stand or shop (syns: refresquería, comedor, lonchería, merendero). in RAE

soez -- (plural: soeces) bad and vulgar in language and temper. (syn: bruto?)

sogas -- pural of soga, rope

somocista

sonámbulo m -- sleepwalker, somnambulist

sopa negra -- italbrac|Costa Rica a soup made from a certain type of beans

soplo m — pos_a blow or gust

sopor m – NOT in babelfish. sleep

soporífico -- soporific

sorbato -- sorbate?

sorbetería f -- place where sorbetes are sold

sorna -- sarcasm

soslayar -- avoid

spinning pos_n (needs Spanish) -- not in RAE, a form of exercise that involves using a stationary bicycle in a classroom setting, seen and heard in Mexico

suadero -- seems similar to arrachera

subasta f

subversión f

suceder -- happen

sujeción f -- noun of sujetar

sujetar -- to hang, to keep

superponer

súplica -- plea

supuraban

surco m -- in RAE

surime -- Costa Rica - food word

suscitar pos_vt RAE

suscrito

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tabanco -- not in babelfish. perhaps tabaco?

tabaquismo

tablaroca -- not in RAE, plenty of Google hits, seen in signage in Mexico

tablón -- plank

tabula rasa (needs Spanish) -- not in RAE. Latin expression used in Spanish

tachilhuil

tacaco m -- italbrac|Costa Rica The plant Polakouskia tacaco and its fruit.

tacaño pos_a -- stingy

taco chino -- (Costa Rica) spring roll

taína -- in RAE

tajada -- slice. seen in Honduras for fried plantain chips which are a cheaper alternative to french fries

tajo m -- cut

talabarte m

talabartería -- seen in Honduras

talabartero m

talego m -- bag

talud m

tamal -- snack in Mexico and Guatemala, originally indigenous

tamiz m -- sieve

taparrabos -- prehistoric clothes, male, to just cover the genital parts, like a tanga but wore in front of body. loin cloth?

TAPO -- major long-distance bus terminal in Mexico City

taponazo m

tardanza f -- in RAE

tartrazina

tasajo m -- some kind of meat in parts of Mexico and in Panama

tascalate

teas f plural (needs Spanish)

tejones (tejón or tejone?)

teleño -- from Tela, Honduras

telera f, telerita f -- a type of bread roll in mexico, cf bolillo

telón m — curtain

temible

tenducho -- derogative form of tienda

téngase -- form of tener (or maybe tenerse)

tenista m f — tennis placer

teñido m -- tainted

terco pos_a -- stubborn

tepezcohuite m -- NOT in RAE

tepozteca -- not in babelfish. civilization of south america

tercera edad f -- old people, usually more than 65 years (similar to middle-aged in English but for older people)

terciar -- intervene

terco pos_a, m -- someone who wants to be always right and doesn't change his mind

tesorería -- treasury

a tientas -- walk without seeing, touching shapes for orientation

sopa negra

tico -- nickname for a person from Costa Rica. pretty sure the feminine form also exists, unlike the case with nica for Nicaraguans. also used as an adjective?

timón m -- piece to drive a boat

tinajos m -- NOT in RAE. comes from tinaja, big tina

tintero m – inkwell?

tiple -- in RAE, kind of opera singer

tiquete -- italbrac|Costa Rica ticket. (alt spell: tique, possibly tiquet. syn: boleto)

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tiquisque m -- italbrac|Nicaragua|Costa Rica A plant, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, eaten as a vegetable. Similar or related to the yucca? Different spelling used in Nicaragua? (see also: otoe - possible syn?)

tiste

titiles

tiza -- cary??, thing used to write in blackboard. chalk?

tlacoyo

tlapeño

tlayuda f -- a mexican snack based on a large crunchy tortilla about the size of a pizza, mainly in oaxaca state

tobillo m — ankle

tocar de oídas – play by ear

tocineta -- bacon (Costa Rica) (related: tocino)

todoterreno -- all terrain vehicle?

tomate de árbol

tomillo -- Costa Rica - food word