Ser bruto, burro...

[Jane]

por favor, qué quiere decir; ser bruto, ser burro y estar crudo?

[Tomisimo]

Bruto/burro refer to being stupid, dumb, etc "blockhead". Crudo in Central America is a hangover.

[Pixter]

yeap, burro/donkey is like the dumbest someone can be........... back in the days when my dad attended grammar school, a pusnishment (for those kids who had academic issues) would be to stand in a corner of the classroom and wear a black cone shaped hat that read the word "Burro." Can you imagine being the official "Burro" of the class???

But " Que burro eres!" "No seas burro!" "Pero que burro/a" is slang too....people use it all the time and it doesnt' mean the person you're talking to is a real "burro"...LOL...I use it all the time

"estar crudo" is hangover

[Escarabajo]

Originally Posted by Pixter

... back in the days when my dad attended grammar school, a pusnishment ... would be to stand in a corner of the classroom and wear a black cone shaped hat that read the word "Burro."

Esto se llama a dunce cap en inglés y dunce es igual que burro aunque dumbass es más habitual y tiene un origen similar.

[Iris]

I always thought estar crudo was used to talk about food. It means something is raw.

[poli]

Originally Posted by Iris

I always thought estar crudo was used to talk about food. It means something is raw.

That too.
Other words I have heard for hangover: guayabo,...there are others but
I can't remember them. My head is pounding

[Iris]

The only word I know for hangover is resaca. Drink some coffee, Poli...

[Elaina]

Those are funny words!

I've always heard....

crudo = hangover

but I think it uses the same connotation as "raw". When you drink too much alcohol, your stomach becomes "raw" so I think that's where the word "crudo" came from.

As far as "guayabo" goes, well I am not going to share what I have heard about that word!!

Elaina

[Iris]

Please, do. Pretty please...

[Elaina]

It's very sexual.........

I'll leave it as that.

Elaina