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Old June 02, 2009, 11:25 AM
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I've never heard "amorrado" in Mexico.

"Estar amodorrado", "modorra" can be heard often though.
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Sulk significa con una cara larga.
Caundo algo pasa que te enoja pero no dice nada. Quedas silencioso pero
no calmado y con una cara larga.--así es sulk.
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I thought "amorrado" was a Mexican word
No I don't think so, I have heard the word time before, but I don't believe that the phrase was born in Mexico although it word is very used in my country.

Thank you for your thought.
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Sometimes you have to look for another word that means the same thing and maybe you can come up with an appropriate word in the other language.

For example......
sulk = bug up her/his
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Anda de genio, anda de malas, está mulo/mula, anda de mírame y déjame, etc..........

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Sometimes you have to look for another word that means the same thing and maybe you can come up with an appropriate word in the other language.

For example......
sulk = bug up her/his
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Anda de genio, anda de malas, está mulo/mula, anda de mírame y déjame, etc..........

En ese caso, en chile decimos "taimado/a"
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Sometimes you have to look for another word that means the same thing and maybe you can come up with an appropriate word in the other language.

For example......
sulk = bug up her/his
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Anda de genio, anda de malas, está mulo/mula, anda de mírame y déjame, etc..........



Jajaja, It was very funny, buy I don't believe that it could to be the correct word in that case, because you word is very vulgar than other ones, I believe the word sulk is more as one idiom in English for example, three days ago I was thinking that the word would be also Estas mal.

For example I wanted meant in that phrase is.


You are sulk since four days ago, because you mother didn't wanted give you the money for your drunks.
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So in your example Crotalito I would still say the person has a bug up his/her
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I don't think it is vulgar. It may be a little off-color but not vulgar.

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So in your example Crotalito I would still say the person has a bug up his/her
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I don't think it is vulgar. It may be a little off-color but not vulgar.

Yes, but I think that the word sound very vulgar.

I don't know it's my thinking about it.
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So in your example Crotalito I would still say the person has a bug up his/her
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I don't think it is vulgar. It may be a little off-color but not vulgar.

Surprise! I didn't know "off-color", but I understand you. Here is "subido de tono" (just on te contrary)
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Surprise! I didn't know "off-color", but I understand you. Here is "subido de tono" (just on te contrary)
Esto me encanta porque muestra como funciona la cabeza a "mil por hora"
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