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April 15, 2013, 06:01 AM
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Jilda - Adjective
My (Spanish) wife often employs the term "Jilda", it means cheap and slutty looking! She was trying on a new swimsuit the other day and she asked "¿Es muy jilda, verdad?" - (it wasn't!). I know what it means but just for curiosity I looked it up and it's not in any Spanish/English dictionary nor my wholly Spanish dictionaries.
Although she lived for many years in Barcelona she doesn't speak Catalán but I looked it up in some translation websites and it doesn't seem to exist in Catalán either! Has anybody else heard it?
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April 15, 2013, 12:29 PM
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Amigo Sancho, would you mind asking your wife the exact spelling of the word she used?
"Jilda" doesn't ring a bell... well, besides "Gilda", the film with Rita Hayworth... but I would not qualify her as "sluttish"... mmmh...  or maybe so... if a "femme fatale" of that caliber could be considered like that...  This becomes a philosophical conundrum of major import... at this point. 
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April 15, 2013, 02:35 PM
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 And I misread the original post completely.  oops.
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April 16, 2013, 01:35 AM
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Here's an example of what Pablo was talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZn86sSWtEQ I think most women wouldn't mind looking too Jilda. Most men would be pleased to see women looking un poquito Jilda.
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April 17, 2013, 06:43 AM
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She never writes it down, and whenever you ask "¿Cómo se escribe eso?", the response is usually "¡Uy - yo qué sé!".
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