HAMBRE DE FIAMBRE
To go hungry or suffer through starvation due to extreme poverty.
In my youth I went through HAMBRE DE FIAMBRE.
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Tag: hambruna
Definitions tagged hambruna in the street dictionary.
BoliviaEstar pegao
To be absolutely starving or famished.
I am really pegao, Jaime. Do you have any money you can lend me to buy an empanada? My dad always gets home pegao from work, so my mom saves him a lot of food.
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Panamápicar el bagre
A slang expression for feeling hungry or having one's stomach growl (a bagre is a catfish, and the phrase compares hunger pangs to a fish biting the stomach).
I haven't eaten anything since this morning and I'm already starting to picar el bagre.
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Argentinahipopapemia
A humorous, mock-medical term for malnutrition or chronic hunger (derived from papa, a Dominican slang term for food).
Juan is suffering from hipopapemia.
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República Dominicana