Jilda - Adjective

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?

All I can think is of the gilipollas word.

Is that a general statement or just specific to this thread? :D:p

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... :thinking: or maybe so... if a "femme fatale" of that caliber could be considered like that... :whistling:

This becomes a philosophical conundrum of major import... at this point. :hmm:

Both? Thank you I meant to write "gilipollas word" but word was left out... :rolleyes:

And I misread the original post completely. :o

oops.

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.

She never writes it down, and whenever you ask "¿Cómo se escribe eso?", the response is usually "¡Uy - yo qué sé!".