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Definitions tagged seco in the street dictionary.

Paja brava

A nickname for the vegetation of the high-altitude plateau, characterized by being dry and sparse (A tough, yellowish bunchgrass common in the Andean highlands).

Once you reach the highway, all you see is paja brava.

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KH´ISA

A word used by older generations to refer to dried fruit. It was also used as a slang term for the elderly, comparing their wrinkled skin to a shriveled fruit, though this usage became less common as the generation using it grew old themselves. (Refers to traditional sun-dried peaches).

Your grandma is very kh´isa.

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PICHIRÓ

A scratchy, dry, or astringent sensation in the throat, similar to the feeling of having swallowed something prickly or sharp, that remains after eating certain foods like pineapple skin or unripe fruit.

The pineapple skin left me with a pichiró.

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CHOJNI

Refers to dried, hardened eye gunk or crusty sleep (derived from the Aymara word for eye crust).

Clean off that chojni before it gets back into your eye.

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CHERLE

Describes food that has turned out too watery or thin.

The fricase you made is a bit CHERLE. (Fricase is a traditional spicy pork soup from Bolivia).

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MITASMATAS

A drinking phrase used among friends to agree on splitting a glass of alcohol by each downing exactly half of it in a single gulp (singani is a grape brandy that is the national spirit of Bolivia).

MITASMATAS, Rafo. That way we can finish off the singani.

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Tu ta borra

It describes a person who is worn out or physically flat, specifically referring to someone whose body parts lack definition as if they have been erased (a contraction of the Spanish word borrada).

Your butt is ta borra.

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