Mild Dominican Insults

[ExtremeR]

Rosca Izquierda,
Vivelejos,
Asoplapote.

[2LeftFeet]

If you are going to post words can you translate them? Many of us don't speak spanish fluently so it's useless for us to see a long list of spanish words. If we do understand the word, many times the words posted don't literally mean what they are translated as .... so nobody is learning anything.

2LF

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by 2LeftFeet

If you are going to post words can you translate them? Many of us don't speak spanish fluently so it's useless for us to see a long list of spanish words. If we do understand the word, many times the words posted don't literally mean what they are translated as .... so nobody is learning anything.

2LF

Yes, we need to indicate what they mean. I stated that on post #1.

[Bayx-**]

How about Chapusero? not sure of the spelling.

What does it mean?

[sokitoumi]

I think also some of the phrases or words may be regional- we have regional variations in our own countries where the phrase may not necessarily be understood by someone from another region of
the same country

[ExtremeR]

Originally Posted by ExtremeR

Rosca Izquierda,
Vivelejos,
Asoplapote.

Rosca Izquierda: Somebody who always disagree with everything, if you say white he yells black.

Vivelejos: It means somebody who lives far away.

Asoplapote: I am not really sure, I have just heard it around

and Chapusero: Somebody who makes a mess while completing a job, for example: Ese mecanico es un chapusero grande!! (That car mechanic is a big chapusero!)

[Dragonfly32837]

Originally Posted by Dragonfly32837

chivito jalto de jobo
raton de iglesia
gato de yarda

chivito jalto de jobo is a goat that is full of a fruit called jobo
raton de iglesia is a church rat
gato de yarda is a yard cat

I just use them as meaningless insults.

[2LeftFeet]

Thaanks!!!

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by Dragonfly32837

chivito jalto de jobo is a goat that is full of a fruit called jobo
raton de iglesia is a church rat
gato de yarda is a yard cat

I just use them as meaningless insults.

Chivito harto (jarto) de jobo - Since jobo is a fruit which does not offer much to eat, to be harto de jobo is to be full of nothing. You are full of airs.

Ratón: thief
Ratón de iglesia: Not a serious thief

Gato de yarda: I don't think this is a Dominican expression since we do not say yarda. We use the word patio.

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by ExtremeR

and Chapusero: Somebody who makes a mess while completing a job, for example: Ese mecanico es un chapusero grande!! (That car mechanic is a big chapusero!)

Chapucero derives from chapuza, which is a labor done carelessly. It is the job itself that is a chapuza.

That carpenter is a chapucero, look at the table he made. My child could have done a better job.

A chapucero is also a swindler (estafador).