Difficult, tough, or hard to deal with. Used for a person who is stubborn or a situation that is complicated. (In Ecuador, man is commonly used to mean guy).
The fictional mother of the person who gets screwed over. It refers to the phrase hijo de MACHEPA, which describes a nobody, a person of low social class, or a scapegoat who is always blamed because they lack status or influence. (Machepa is a symbolic name representing the poor or underprivileged class in the Dominican Republic).
A: Who was it that ate the chicken that was on the counter? B: I think it was El Kuqui. El Kuqui: Oh sure, me, the hijo de MACHEPA, right?
A person who is physically disabled, crippled, or paralyzed, making them unable to perform everyday activities (a phonetic spelling of the standard Spanish word tullido, reflecting Dominican pronunciation).
That guy is missing a leg and is in a wheelchair, he is tuyio!
1. Something that is extremely over-salted. 2. A person who is chronically unlucky and acts as a jinx, passing their bad luck onto others (the term is a regional pronunciation of salado, or salted).
1. Food you cannot eat because it is way too salao. 2. A person who is very salao, cannot catch a break, and passes that bad luck to everyone else.
A state of being jinxed or cursed, specifically referring to the condition of the country since Leonel (The hurricane attractor) took over the presidential palace (referring to the superstition that former president Leonel Fernandez attracted natural disasters and bad luck during his time in office).