Pastilla

Pastilla
 

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for July 14, 2008

pastilla - feminine noun (la) - pill, tablet, bar. Look up pastilla in the dictionary

Tómate tus pastillas para que no te vuelvas a enfermar.
Take your pills so you won't get sick again.

Some countries (Argentina por ejemplo) call them comprimidos.

For non-native English speakers. it might be good to know that pill
can mean a person who is a real bore. Maybe it's equivalent of
mosca cojonera although that sounds a little bit vulgar.
I think a person who is pill = Una person que es una postema.

¿Qué diablos es una postema?

Aqui se usa mucho. Por ejemplo:
"Vamos al cine con tal de que termines de asemblar el mueble."
¡no seas una postema!

¡Caramba, Poli! La primera vez que lo oigo. Suena bien. ¿Quiénes dicen postema? ¿Asemblar o ensamblar?

Ciertamente la palabra es ensamblar. Aprendí una palabra tambien.
Postema suena muy cómico porque en realidad una postema es un abseso

¿Quieres decir un obeso?

Poli meant absceso and apostema.
persona pesada = postema (aféresis de apostema)

Mexico In the pills're called chochitos.!


A postema is a word very fun.

Example: Victor lest go to the street, please you don't be a postema.

Really in. it's the first time, I hear in my life that word.

Corrections above.

Isn't

abscess = postemilla (usually in your mouth)

Is

postema the same as postemilla (maybe in a different locale?)?

Elaina:confused::thinking:

Rusty said that the word postema is a shortened version of the word
apostema which is a proper word for abscess in Spanish. Postemilla
is clearly a diminutive word (little abscess).
In some Latin-American countries calling someone a postema is the
equivalent of calling someone "a pain in the neck/ass" in English.