Mild Dominican Insults

[Norma Rosa]

Aguajero - mild liar

[Ezequiel]

Originally Posted by Norma Rosa

Aguajero - mild liar

Aguajero- Is a person who always says that he's doing something but never does it.

[Bayx-**]

Originally Posted by Ezequiel

Aguajero- Is a person who always says that he's doing something but never does it.

Also, someone who is always promising something, but doesn't deliver what he promised.

Examples, I’ll take out to dinner tomorrow, I am going to help paint, or I’ll go get the mail for you etc…. but it never happens.

[Norma Rosa]

Aguajero (Conceited, according to RAE)

Adj. R. Dom. y Ven. Dicho de una persona: Que alardea (presume de algo). U. t. c. s.
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[Norma Rosa]

I received this word today via e-mail and thought about this old thread.

Fantoche: Although having various meanings, it is used in the DR to mean conceited. It applies to a person who considers himself very smart.

[Chip]

lambon - brown noser
inventoso - mild liar
sin educacion - uneducated
tumba polvo - likes to call attention to one's self

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by Chip

sin educacion - uneducated

“Sin educación” or “mal educado/a” has to be the insult most used by Dominicans. It implies that the person lacks moral principles;that he/she has been poorly brought up. It has nothing to do with academic education.

Norma

[Chip]

Originally Posted by Norma Rosa

“Sin educación” or “mal educado/a” has to be the insult most used by Dominicans. It implies that the person lacks moral principles;that he/she has been poorly brought up. It has nothing to do with academic education.

Norma

I know that actually, but my translated term in English somehow reverted to a direct translation - funny how that happens sometimes. Thanks for the clarification.

[Norma Rosa]

(Chip, "uneducated" is the literal translation.)

Las personas mal educadas usan la palabra chopo/a.

[Chip]

Originally Posted by Norma Rosa

(Chip, "uneducated" is the literal translation.)

But of course prima. What I'm saying is that I understand that "sin educacion" means without manners but that my direct translation to English was incorrect because I was thinking in Spanish.