Translations please

[juanitas]

What do these words mean? They all come from Junot Diaz's wonderful book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:

klerin

peledista

jiringonza

restevak

tetatorio

Muchas gracias

juanitas

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by juanitas

What do these words mean? They all come from Junot Diaz's wonderful book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:

klerin

peledista

jiringonza

restevak

tetatorio

Muchas gracias

juanitas

Please provide context, or page number. (Check spelling, please. Although Junot didn't).


Klerin: Does not look Spanish. (A noun?)

peledeísta: person who belongs to the PLD party.

jiringonza?
jerigonza = language (jargon) of certain groups
jeringón/a = person who likes to annoy, make trouble


restavek:

A restavec (or restavek; from the French reste avec, "one who stays with") refers to a social system in Haiti in which parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers living in more urban areas where they receive food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for "light" housework. In reality restavecs often live in grinding poverty, enslaved to their "hosts" and seldom receiving an education. The restavec system is considered a form of slavery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restavec

teta: mammary gland
tetatorio? (Maybe a place where there are many women, therefore many tetas. I don't know.

Norma

[Mujermaravilla]

tetatorio means the woman had BIG boobs. Oscar's mom had huge boobs.

if you give me tha page # I can tell you what the words mean or how he is using them.

[juanitas]

Thank you for your very helpful responses. I'm very happy to provide the page numbers, as follows:

klerin - p. 151

peledista - pp. 206, 209

jiringonza - p. 235

restevak - p. 253

tetatorio - p. 93

Mil de gracias

juanitas

[M.A.R.]

Originally Posted by juanitas

Thank you for your very helpful responses. I'm very happy to provide the page numbers, as follows:

klerin - p. 151

peledista - pp. 206, 209

jiringonza - p. 235

restevak - p. 253

tetatorio - p. 93

Mil de gracias

juanitas

I'm sure 'restevak' is still something done in the DR, I know it was a practice in the DR. Large very poor families would give away one of their children to a family who is a better off.

[Mujermaravilla]

Originally Posted by juanitas

Thank you for your very helpful responses. I'm very happy to provide the page numbers, as follows:

klerin - p. 151 - I'm pretty sure it is some kind of liquor. probably bootleg


peledista - pp. 206, 209 a person that belongs to the PLD party
jiringonza - p. 235 - I think he means "bull s#it" because he is commenting on Beli's father's trial. restevak - p. 253 - like the previous poster said. she was living with distant family and was being used as a maid.
tetatorio - p. 93 - Huge boobs.
Mil de gracias

juanitas

hope this helps

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by M.A.R.

I'm sure 'restevak' is still something done in the DR, I know it was a practice in the DR. Large very poor families would give away one of their children to a family who is a better off.

Yes, MAR. That is still going on among Dominicans. Sometimes kids are sent to other family members, but sometimes it's just to friends, or even people the child does not know. We just don't use the French term restavec; I don't think we have a specific term for it.

[PICHARDO]

Originally Posted by juanitas

Thank you for your very helpful responses. I'm very happy to provide the page numbers, as follows:

klerin - p. 151

Moonshine (rough sugarcane based licor)

peledista - pp. 206, 209

Could Mean "Pele-fan" (a star of soccer)
A Peledeista (PLD political party member)


jiringonza - p. 235

Speaking a bit gibberish, adding or missing letters in words as you speak. Mostly used in the campos to refer to baby's talk!

restevak - p. 253

That's how they call the kids that are placed with other families, usually kids from a poor background and made to become servants within the new families in Haiti. Comes from Rest- Avec(French)

tetatorio - p. 93

Large woman's bust

Mil de gracias

A thousand thanks!

juanitas

Depends on context it's being used for, but in the campos are used to describe old maids or mother like figures "Matriarcas"

If you post the actual sentence the meaning may be completely different as well!!! Is this an attempt to make us go and buy the book?!? LOL!!!

[catcherintherye]

Mil de gracias
A thousand thanks!
juanitas
Depends on context it's being used for, but in the campos are used to describe old maids or mother like figures "Matriarcas"

OMG!!!

Picardo, you really are a linear thinker, aren't you? Is it possible for you to see and separate a salutation and signature from the rest of a text, particularly when the OP's name has already been given.

By the way, It speaks volumes if you haven't read the book yet.

[À bientôt]

Originally Posted by catcherintherye

Mil de gracias
A thousand thanks!
juanitas
Depends on context it's being used for, but in the campos are used to describe old maids or mother like figures "Matriarcas"

Benoit: "Now way, dude!

Appalachian teenager: "Way!"