pokemon

pokemon/pokemona - any adolescent in Chile, a Chilean adolescent with an unstraight, poofy haircut who listens to reggaeton and likes to "poncear" - grope, kiss, etc. randoms at parties and in plazas. The male version is somewhat adrogenous, likes to sport eyeliner and "afeminada" clothing

sinonimo - pendejo, pokemono -- since there are pokemonas, there have most definitely got to be pokemonos. jejeje.
antononym - pelolais

Etymology - A while back, maybe a year or so, I saw an article on emol about adolescents "pelolais". Basically this group started as a fotolog thing, where pretty, tall, thin, virgin adolescents with long hair, tried to get their photos put on other people's fotologs of beautiful people. I couldn't believe emol actually had a report on this group with white-supremist undertones. Than came the "ondulais" and "pokemonas" who had dark hair, and were short and voluptuous, listened to reggaeton and ponceaban a lot. They ended up taking the spotlight away from the pelolais and were invited to Buenos Dias a Todos and were/are the news of the moment.

Chilenismo, informal

te pasaste

te pasaste - you outdid yourself
se pasó - he outdid himself

Oooh! Te pasaste. Me trajiste mi vino preferido.
Oooh! You outdid yourself. You brought me my favorite wine.

Chilenismo, coloquial

estarse pasando películas

estarse pasando películas - to be imagining things

Marcelo: Oye, ¿atinaste con el pololo de la Maca? Porque uds se fueron de la fiesta juntos el otro día y después la Maca no podía ubicar a su pololo.
Ana María: No, nica, te estás pasando películas con cuático.

Marcelo: Hey, did you hook up with Maca's boyfriend?, because you guys left the party together the other day and afterward Maca couldn't get a hold of her boyfriend.
Ana María: No, absolutely not, you're imagining things.

Chilenismo, coloquial

chueco

chueco - crooked, twisted, bent, not straight, adj. to describe someone who has crooked legs, tramposo (crooked)

Cuando fui a empastar la tesis, uno de los locales tenía una muestra y las líneas escritas en la portada estaban chuecas. Dificil que alguien empaste la tesis allá.

When I went to get the thesis bound, one of the shops had a sample thesis and the written lines on the cover were crooked. I doubt anyone will bind their thesis there.

Español, pero de uso común en Chilito

hinchar

hinchar - molestar, webear, to bother

Puta, me tienes chata, deja de hinchar las pelotas.
Shit, I'm sick of you, stop bothering me.

hinchar las pelotas, hinchar las bolas - vulgares

Chilenismo, coloquial

pescar

pescar - to pay attention to someone. (the normal meaning is "to fish")
no pescar - to ignore someone -- this expression is mostly used in the negative:
No me pesca. He doesn't pay attention to me. He ignores me.

Vero: Ese weón me tiene chata.
Maca: No le pesquís, está puro webeando.

Vero: I'm sick of that dude.
Maca: Ignore him, he's just screwing around.

one of my fave Chilean expressions - pescar. It so helps describe situations here.

Chilenismo, coloquial

capo

capo - capaz, able

interlocutor 1: Supiste que Diego está haciendo su magister en Alemania? Parece que le ha ido bien.
interlocutor 2: El weón capo.

Speaker 1: Did you know Diego is doing his master's in Germany? It seems he's done well there.
Speaker 2: Smart kid.

synonym: seco

Chilenismo, coloquial

Está en canadá

Está en canadá - He's in jail. Literally it means "He is in Canada." But figuratively it means "He's in jail."
Está en caná means "he's in jail", "Está en Canadá is just a humourous variation of "Está en caná"

simular expression - Le llevaron precioso. Literally "The took him beautiful." It comes from "Le llevaron preso" which means "They took him as a prisoner." or "They arrested him."

Coa, I believe
coloquial

sacar la vuelta

sacar la vuelta - to milk it. hahahahha. This term is fundamental to the Chilean work vocabulary. hehehehehe. I know, I'm evil. But it's true. See here and here. (Not all Chileans milk it, but it is a common phenomenon here.) Some of my English students wanted me to translate this term the other day.

colega 1: ¿Donde está Diego?
colega 2: Por allí, sacando la vuelta.

colleague 1: Where's Diego?
colleague 2: Over there, milkin' it.

Coloquial,
Chilenismo?

piropo

piropo - a flirtatious, flattering comment; a sexual comment

Los obreros siempre me tiran piropos.
The construction workers always send flattering comments my way.

Español normal