Codo

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This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for April 9, 2009

codo (masculine noun (el)) — elbow. Look up codo in the dictionary

Me pegué en el codo y me duele mucho.
I hit my elbow and it really hurts.

[poli]

Codo also means tacaño.
Camina con sus codos(o codo?) &
Anda por codos means he's so cheap he walks with his elbows to save
shoe leather. Among people from the Caribbean, all you have to do is
touch your elbow when the stingy person isn't looking. Others who see you will understand. I always thought this was funny.

[Fazor]

Originally Posted by poli

Codo also means tacaño.
Camina con sus codos(o codo?) &
Anda por codos means he's so cheap he walks with his elbows to save
shoe leather. Among people from the Caribbean, all you have to do is
touch your elbow when the stingy person isn't looking. Others who see you will understand. I always thought this was funny.

Me gusta mucho!

I'll have to remember that so I can use it in the future.

[Elaina]

Es tan tacaño que la mano derecha no sabe cuanto dinero tiene la mano izquierda.

¿Habrá personas de tal extremo?

[chileno]

En chile, a los tacaños los llamamos "apretado(s)"

Mas apretado que traje de torero...

[Elaina]

Hay una expresión en inglés.......Penny Pincher

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(He's such a penny pincher he makes Lincoln fart.)

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Elaina

Hay una expresión en inglés.......Penny Pincher

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(He's such a penny pincher he makes Lincoln fart.)

hehehe

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

Codo also means tacaño.
Camina con sus codos(o codo?) &
Anda por codos means he's so cheap he walks with his elbows to save
shoe leather. Among people from the Caribbean, all you have to do is
touch your elbow when the stingy person isn't looking. Others who see you will understand. I always thought this was funny.

Most of that is true for Mexico as well.

Originally Posted by chileno

En chile, a los tacaños los llamamos "apretado(s)"

Mas apretado que traje de torero...

In Mexico, if you use apretado when talking about dinero, it just means you're short on money. "Me aprieto un poco / Estoy apretado" = "Money's tight".

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

Most of that is true for Mexico as well.


In Mexico, if you use apretado when talking about dinero, it just means you're short on money. "Me aprieto un poco / Estoy apretado" = "Money's tight".

In chile too.

I keep forgetting my own language...

Ser apretado = tacaño

Estar apretado = problema financiero (estar en problemas, como de dinero o tiempo)

Estoy apretado de tiempo, ¿que quieres?

[poli]

My grandmother used to say her brother was tighter than a crab's ass.
"tight with money" is certainly used in English.

[Elaina]

Originally Posted by poli

My grandmother used to say her brother was tighter than a crab's ass.
"tight with money" is certainly used in English.

That is cute!

[Jessica]

right I learned tacaño as elbow.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by jchen

right I learned tacaño as elbow.

Codo = elbow, but it also means stingy.

tacaño only means stingy.

[Fazor]

I think we learned "codo". "Tacaño" certainly doesn't sound familiar.

[poli]

Originally Posted by Fazor

I think we learned "codo". "Tacaño" certainly doesn't sound familiar.

To be honest tacaño may be more internationally understood. I don't know if codo works in Spain, and Hernan didn't say whether it worked in Chile. I can only surely say it's commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries that face the Caribbean and Mexico.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by poli

To be honest tacaño may be more internationally understood. I don't know if codo works in Spain, and Hernan didn't say whether it worked in Chile. I can only surely say it's commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries that face the Caribbean and Mexico.

I am sorry, as I forgot to mention that in chile codo means codo and not stingy. ;-)

But I mentioned that stingy people are called apretados.

I did not know that codo meant the same thing for Caribbeans as for Mexicans, though.

[sosia]

In Spain

codo means codo and not stingy. ;-)

too

[irmamar]

Efectivamente, la traducción de "elbow" es "codo" es español de España. Si a mí alguien me viene y me dice que alguien "anda con los codos" pensaré que ha perdido los antebrazos (no lo había oído nuna). Lo que sí se dice aquí es que alguien "habla por los codos" cuando habla mucho.

Tampoco se dice en España "me golpeé el codo", sino "me dí un golpe en el codo" (o cabeza, mano, pie, etc.), aunque la primera frase se comprende perfectamente y es correcta (no como lo de "andar con los codos", que no se entiende).

[CrOtALiTo]

To be codo is stingy in Mexico.

You are so stingy.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

Codo = elbow, but it also means stingy.

tacaño only means stingy.

oh oops