Argentine Slang (Lunfardo)

And Idiomatic Expressions

Argentine Slang

1. Money -- plata, biyuya, carga, guita, guitarra, mango, menega, meneguina, morlaco, mosca, shosha, torbelo, vento, ventolina, viyuya
2. one peso - un ferro, un sopardo
3. a fine woman- camion, yegua, yeguasa
4. to drink alcohol- chupar
5. a drunk- chupete, chupetin, chupado, borracho
6. to sleep - apoliyar
7. influence (noun) - arrastre
8. A bum - attorante, atorra, reo, juntapuchos
9. to bum around - atorrar
10. head (noun) - azotea, balero, coco, cucuza,  mate, melON, pensadora, piojera, piojosa, sabiola, zapallo
11. A morbidly obese person - bachicha
12. a lie - boleo
13. stupid (adj) - chichiPIo, chitrulo, espiantado, fanega, froilan, gil, mamerto, merlo, merluza, pajaRON, paparulo, papa frita, tarado, vichenzo, viyuyo
14. The belly, esp. of a pregnant woman - bombo
15. awesome! cool! - brutal
16. stomach or belly - busarda, buseca, mondonguera, cocina
17. food - buyonera, lastre, morfe, morfi, morfeteo
18. to eat - buyonear, lastrar, manyar, morfar, morfilar
19. to get angry - cabrearse
20. anger - chinche
21. angry - chinchudo, estrilado
22. one who is easily angered - cabrero
23. fear, panic - cerote, cui-cui
24. to confess, tell the truth - cantar
25. the boss - el capo
26. work, think, function - carburar
27. a stupid person - carton, guiso, pamela
28. a bed - catrera
29. a man - catriel

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31. woman - catriela, garaba, grela, mina, minusa, mueble, naifa, paica, percanta, percantina, taquera, yenusa
32. anything you don't know the name of - coso, cosa, cusifai
33. to die - crepar
34. very ill -chacado
35. sickness - chacadura
36. a cop - chafe
37. to talk, converse - chamuyar, mancusar
38. door - chancleta
39. to take - chapar
40. adj to describe very good looking - churrasco, churro
41. of excellent quality - debute
42. totally disorganized - despelotado
43. to dress - empilchar also empilcharSE
44. to soil, stain, get muddy - enchastar
45. to fully understand - engranar
46. to lie, deceive - engrupir
47. to break, destroy, ruin - escrachar
48. an ugly woman - escracho, lorenzo
49. to leave quickly, scam, split - espirar, espiracusar, espiantar, piantar, picar, pirar, rajar
50. flight (as in fleeing) - espiante
51. dead - espichado
52. to die - espichar, palmar, sonar
53. a talk, speech - espiche (derived from english)
54. a bad odor - esputsa
55. shoes - fangos, fanguses, fanguyos, fanyugos, tarros
56. to punish - felpear
57. a stupid person - fesa
58. a morgue - fiambrera
59. a knife - fiyingo, naife
60. 45 caliber pistol - forfai
61. a very beatiful woman - formayo
62. bad, ugly, cowardly - fulero
63. amplification of 'fulero' - fulerON
64. leg - gamba (plural is 'gambas' not the Italian 'gambi'
65. person of low socio-economic status not trying to improve - grasa
66. an aggravating person - hinCHON
67. bother, pester - hinchar, jeringar
68. face - jeta
69. get somethin for free by asking for it - jetear
70. to make fun of - joder
71. messed up, abandoned - jodido
72. a person or thing of very high quality - kilo
73. to work -laburar
74. work, occupation - laburo
75. to give - lampar
76. vomit (noun) - lastrada
77. pants - leones, lompas
78. laziness - linusa
79. thief, slang - lunfardo
80. cheap, of low quality - maleta
81. bread - marroca
82. a trick, a deception, a trap - matufIa
83. to trick or trap - matufiar
84. an embarrassing, complicated situation - menesunda, meresunda
85. a difficult, complicated situation - merengue
86. love, passion - metedura, meteJON
87. in love - metido
88. fall in love- amurarse, encamotarse
89. a lie, a fraud - milanesa
90. extreme poverty - mishiadura
91. poor, miserable - misho, mistongo
92. exclamation of "never!" - mingo!
93. a cadaver - fiambre, mortadela
94. bad luck - mufa
95. fraud, deception - mula
96. nose - napia
97. very beautiful - papa, pairuso
98. extremely beautiful - papusa
99. worl - parola
100. mess, confusion - pusticho
101. anger - pataleo
102. having no money, broke - pato (andar o estar pato)
103. anger, bad temper - payasa
104. drunkenness - pedo, peludo
105. poor young woman of low social standing - percalera, percalina
106. a hole (as in puncture) - peripicho
107. bad person - perro
108. cocaine - pichicata
109. foot - pisante
110. elegant, aristocratic - pituco
111. strength - polenta, pulenta
112. beautiful - posta (usually 'Que posta!')
113. bed - pulisa
114. hunger - ragU
115. to be hungry - ragunear
116. poor, humble - ranero
117. in bad condition, deteriorated - rasposa
118. low class, dirty, abandoned woman - rea
119. disorder, confusion - relajo
120. already seen, rerun - remanyado
121. to see again - remanyar
122. to bother, molest - revirar
123. street - rua
124. crowd of people - runfla
125. sick, of broken health - shacado
126. very sick, dying - sonado
127. immediately - tacataca
128. an old car - tacho
129. courageous man - taita
130. lucky - tarrudo
131. a valient man - taura, tauro
132. to play (as a sport) - timbear
133. a person - tipo
134. in ill health or very poor - tirado
135. excessive cold - tornillo
136. influence (noun) - vaina
137. to teach - varear
138. on object, thing - verdurita
139. half crazy - virola
140. vivacious - vivanco
141. jacket - yacuMIN
142. walk, wander - yirar
143. to work - yugar
144. work as in carry heavy load - yugo
145. worker - yuguero
146. collar of a shirt - yuguiyo
147. a ring - zarzo
148. Bondi (Colectivo/Bus)
149. Los azules (los policias/the cops)
150. Morlaco (Peso - Monetary unit 1 Peso=1 dollar)
151. porro = joint of marijuana
152. pepa = hit of acid
153. yuta = police
154. cana = police
155. merca = cocaine
156. raviol = gram of cocaine
157. trolo = gay (usually despective)
158. flipar (verb) = to shock, like in 'when I saw that I shocked'
159. una luca = mil pesos or thousand dollars
160. luca verde = thousand dollars
161. palo = millon de pesos or millon dollars
162. palo verde = millon dollars
163. un diego = ten percent tip, usually illegal
164. joya nunca taxi = in perfect conditions of conservation
165. picucu = thats cool or rad
166. barbaro = awesome
167. joya = good, awesome

Idiomatic Expressions

1. Sin guita no morfa, sin viyuya la panza no se llena.
2. Tiene la cara larga como chupete de mellisos.
3. Estirar la pata - to die
4. Tirarme las agujas vieja = What time is it? "Throw me the needles"
5. Achicar el panico = Chill out! "Shrink the panic"
6. te cortaron verde: are you crazy?
7. !que moquero!: what a bad thing! or what a bummer!
8. Esta al vicio como timbre de panteON. (Worthless like a doorbell on a grave house).
9. hacer bolsa a alguien - to seriously injure someone
10. media botella - a short person
11. dar corte - to pay attention
12. estirar la jeta - to get angry
13. tener la manija - to have a handle on things
14. tirar manteca al techo - to reach complete disorder, chaos
15. estar en la onda/estar en la pomada - to be in the loop
16. tener mala pata - to be unlucky
17. dar el raje - to say goodbye
18. estar tirado - to be very poor or in bad health
19. Ser Boleta - to be murdered
20. Trucho - fake, illegal merchandise.
21. Firme como rulo de estatua (Firm like a statue's curly)
22. Perdido como turco en la neblina (Lost like a Turk (refered to arabs) in the fog)
23. Asustado como perro en bote (Scared like a dog on a boat)
24. Contento como perro con dos colas (Happy like a dog with two tails)(o como chico con juguete nuevo) (as a kid with a new toy)
25. Inutil como cenicero de moto (Useless as a motorcycle's ashtray)
26. Tiene menos carne que rodilla de canario
27. Inutil como bocina en avion
28. Me pasaron como alhambre caido
29. Te voy a dar la roja - cuando uno juega en un partido de fútbol, y va en contra de la regla, comete una infracción. El árbitro le da la tarjeta roja como mal aguero hacia otra persona.
30. Este, Como es? - What???
31. Bajar la cana - to get on one's case
32. Darte la pina - to hit someone
33. Media naranja - girlfriend\other half