![]() Tengo fiaca literally translates to ‘I have laziness’ and is often used as an excuse to get out of engagements. If someone refers to you as a grosso/a, capo/a or copado/a you should definitely not be offended, these words mean a person is cool and are the highest of compliments in lunfardo. A male can be a pibe, or a chabón, a female a mina, piba or chabóna. Mina, pibe and chabón are slang for boys and girls. Perhaps you might wait for the bondi as you smoke a pucho, and think about the birra you’re about to have with your morfi, before going to a boliche. There are lunfardo words for life’s essentials: morfi – food, birra – beer, pucho – cigarettes, boliche – nightclub and bondi – bus. ![]() It is often followed by boludo, which can mean friend, mate or idiot, depending on the context. – Che is the word Argentines use to call each other, a bit like ‘hey’ in English, and is usually used at the start of a sentence. But how can you master the art of Argentine slang? ![]() Much lunfardo is accompanied by hand gestures, a true porteño shows no emotion without waving their hands around, and can be roughly divided into categories regarding the most important aspects of Argentine life. It began as a whisper among prisoners, homesick immigrants and some of the first tangeros, but lunfardo, or Buenos Aires slang has now permeated popular culture to the extent that porteños of all ages and social classes use its thousands of words and phrases.
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