A slang term popularized by soccer legend Diego Maradona to describe someone who is thick-headed, stubborn, or slow-witted. It characterizes the person as having a hollow or sealed-off mind, much like a thermos flask. (Diego Maradona was a world-famous Argentine soccer player).
How is it going, you cabeza de termo! said Diego Maradona as he greeted the singer Rodrigo Bueno in Havana. (Rodrigo Bueno was a famous Argentine singer of the music genre known as cuarteto).
A crude term for a dim-witted person who is visibly slow to understand what is going on, typically characterized by a vacant or blank facial expression.
1. Here comes that carepalmada Maya. 2. Is this carepalmada waiter ever going to bring the check?
A fool, idiot, or sucker. It refers to someone who is naive or lacks street smarts (a classic term in Argentine street slang for someone who is easily deceived).
A poser who brags about things that are not true, or someone who talks nonsense. (In Mexico, it is often used for people perceived as stuck-up or full of themselves).
A: See that girl who is so pretty and hot? She is my girlfriend. B: Do not be a mamón. That girl does not even look at you.
A person who is useless, slow, or a total softie. It describes someone who lacks the drive or skill to handle basic tasks, often being clumsy, dim-witted, or overly sensitive.
Mother: Boy, you really are a blandengue, snap out of it and get it together!
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.
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