finado
A dead person, the deceased. (In Argentina, this term is frequently used to refer to the person whose body is present at a wake or funeral.)
And the finado was looking at all of them from the casket.
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Tag: muerto
Definitions tagged muerto in the street dictionary.
Argentinamortadela
To be dead, a goner, or stone-cold (mortadella is a type of cold cut meat, and in Argentina, the word for cold cuts, fiambre, is a common slang term for a corpse).
A car hit him and he ended up mortadela.
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Fiambre
A corpse or dead body. (The word literally refers to cold cuts or deli meats, used as slang because a dead body is cold.)
Nasty accident! The fiambres were left right there, lying in the street.
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dijuntos
Dead people or the deceased. This is a colloquial or rural pronunciation of the standard Spanish word difuntos.
to die
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ColombiaChochueca
A famous local eccentric in the Dominican Republic known for crashing the wakes of total strangers. He demanded the best food and refused to leave until he was given the clothes of the deceased. Chochueca also frequently snuck into the Maximo Gomez cemetery to steal funeral wreaths, resulting in him being kicked out by staff on numerous occasions. He was a well-known street figure from the 1970s onward. (The Maximo Gomez cemetery is a prominent graveyard in Santo Domingo).
Taken from an audio clip by Ramon del Orbe.
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República Dominicanamuerto fresco
Someone who is severely malnourished or extremely skinny.
Feed skinny Lalo well, he is starting to look like a muerto fresco.
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PerúComida de reso
Traditional dishes served during Dominican prayer services held for the deceased, such as the nine days of mourning. These meals typically include rice with pigeon peas, chicken, or herring, and starchy root vegetables served with beef. (A rezo is a communal prayer gathering held after a funeral or on the anniversary of a death).
Damn, I stuffed myself with rice and meat at Tete's reso. I have never eaten like that in my life.
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Cadáver
1. A corpse or dead body. 2. A very old person who is no longer self-sufficient and appears to be near death.
1. I saw the cadáver of the guy who died on the corner. 2. Don Luis is a total cadáver now, old age hit him all at once.
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