Definitions tagged demente in the street dictionary.
Someone who is crazy, nuts, or whose head is messed up. (Derived from the word ñame, which literally means yam but is used locally to describe a crazy person).
That guy is ñampiao, he has been doing way too much drugs.
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A loony or eccentric person who lives in a parallel universe where everything is backward. Someone who acts so bizarrely they seem like they belong in a Salvador Dali painting.
Don't be a ñame, Pedro. Put your pants on, nobody wants to see your junk in the street, kid.
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Crazy. Someone who is nuts, eccentric, or not in their right mind. (In Argentina, this term often describes someone who is harmlessly or quirkily insane).
My uncle eats pasta with red sauce for breakfast. He is kind of colifato.
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1. A person who is well-spoken or has the gift of gab. 2. In slang, a synonym for crazy or wild (in Peru, it is a playful or ironic substitute for the word loco).
1. My dad is very locuaz, that is why he always gives speeches at family gatherings. 2. In school he was very quiet but now he has become a real locuaz.
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Refers to someone who is nuts, crazy, or has lost their marbles. The term is a play on the Spanish idiom of having crickets in your head, meaning you have lost your mind.
I am not listening to you, you are grillao.
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A slang expression used to tell someone they are crazy, insane, or out of their mind (a contraction of the phrase tú estás fuera).
A: Damn girl, you have some great tits. B: Tu ta' fú.
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someone who is not in their right mind or has lost their mental faculties.
insane.
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A crackhead, glue-sniffer, or erratic junkie. (Refers to the combination of a sniffer, a crazy person, and an inhalant user).
You are a guelimamote!
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A well-known street character in Santo Domingo during the Trujillo dictatorship. He was said to be so hideous that pregnant women avoided looking at him, fearing that he would cause their babies to be born with deformities (Rafael Trujillo was a dictator who ruled from 1930 to 1961).
Anyone who actually saw Maco Pempén is more than 50 years old.
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A person who is totally nuts or stark raving mad. It is typically used in the idiom 'crazier than Japerruna' (a reference to a legendary eccentric woman from the town of Marchena).
My sister is a Japerruna.
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Slang for someone who is crazy, deranged, or out of their mind. It refers to a person whose brain is malfunctioning or out of service (the phrase le patina el coco means their mind is slipping).
They hit him so many times that they left him Rututa.
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A synonym for crazy. It refers to someone who does not give a damn about anything and lives a reckless, wild life.
The craziest guy in the neighborhood is a total demencia.
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