A slow-witted, dense, or scatterbrained person. It describes someone who is constantly spaced out, lacks initiative, or is just generally useless and slow to catch on.
An atembao is someone who needs you to repeat things to them tirelessly just so they can finally process and understand.
Describes someone who is completely clueless or has no idea what is happening around them. (Refers to the son of Charles Lindbergh, the aviator whose child was famously kidnapped; the name was adapted to Limber in the Dominican Republic).
When a group tells a well-known joke, the person who does not get it is mas perdido que el hijo de limber.
An expression used to describe someone who is spacing out, daydreaming, or has completely lost the thread of the current conversation. (In the Dominican Republic, a guagua is a public bus).
1. Jose: Look, that is the girl we were talking about! Maria: But that is Luis's girlfriend! Right, Luisa? Luisa: ...uh! What? What was that? Jose: Oh no! Wake up! Or what? Te llevó la guagua? 2. Juan is always: se lo vive llevando la guagua.
A person who is a loser, a chump, or socially inept. It is the go-to label for someone who is slow, gullible, or just plain boring. A pariguayo is a guy who lacks street smarts and always seems to be the one who loses out in any situation.
Juan is in love with Juana, but he is too slow. He never manages to tell her. In that case he acts like a pariguayo. Juan found 2,000 dollars and that pariguayo returned it. He really is a pariguayo!
A young guy without ambition who does everything like a fool, lacks drive, and is usually lazy. If he is even worse than a guanajo, meaning he is a lazy man-child, he is called a guanabaso, which implies he is beyond help and dumber than a donkey. (In the Caribbean, guanajo is the word for turkey, used to describe someone slow or gullible).
(Talking to a 20 year old) Hey Mario, let's go out, what are you doing there man? No, I'm not into girls right now, I have to update my MySpace.