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Tag: josefina

Definitions tagged josefina in the street dictionary.

Chepa

A common nickname for women named Josefa or Josefina. It is often used in the diminutive form chepita or as machepa (combined with ma, a short form of mother). (In the Dominican Republic, the phrase hijo de machepa is a common idiom referring to the poor or the common man, popularized by the politician and writer Juan Bosch).

1. Josefina does not like being called Chepa. 2. Juan Bosch said that the poor are sons of Machepa. 3. Chepa and chepita got together (mother and daughter).

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