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Old October 17, 2011, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar View Post
Please note that "poca madre" and "a toda madre" are not only very colloquial expressions, but they're considered bad words and they're not approppriate for all contexts.

Some equivalent expressions without profanity that may also be a bit archaic these days can be:
·A todas margaritas
·A toda máquina
·A todo dar

Common ways to say something is cool or awsome can be:
·Padre / muy padre / padrísimo (still Mexican colloquial)
·Increíble / genial / súper (more neutral, and also understood in other countries)



"Piocha" is a colloquial word for chin or beard.

Saying just "piocha", as Ahuizote said, means that you agree with something or you find it alright.

"Por piocha" means "each person", like in "son veinte pesos por piocha" (also, one can hear "son veinte pesos por cabeza"), which would mean "each person must pay twenty pesos".
Thanks ,Angélica, but "piocha", besides being a beard, is a word that the very old people used when they wanted to say "cool", "great", "a todo mecate","al puro gis","está suave".
For example: "ese carro está bien piocha".
The phrase "20 pesos por piocha" is letting us know that many years ago, many people had beards, so, even when "20 pesos por cabeza" works for the same meaning, the root is not the same(it is very interesting to analyze the sociology through the times and the why of the uses in a society).
Even that gesture clenching the fist under the chin, prevailed to our times,for example when we say "está bien padre" it's very common to do that old gesture.
For being agreed with something there were some words of our regular slang that were incorporated for the same purposes.We can count typical words like: "suave","suavena", "chiro" or "chido".
Regarding "la madre", in many cultures, including ours, the meaning of the mother is something superior.
It could sounds rude, but it's not needed the setting of the " ! " alert.....nowadays, even in the syndicated t.v. ,all the people can hear such expressions.