pendejo

Borrowed from Spanish pendejo.

pendejo (plural pendejos)

1. (US, slang, derogatory) A stupid person.

• Typically only used by Spanish-speaking people.

From a contracted form of Vulgar Latin *pectiniculus (“pube, dirty person, rascal”), from Latin pecten (“comb, pubic hair”). Compare Portuguese pentelho (“pubic hair”) and English pectinate (“resembling a comb”).

• IPA^(key): /penˈdexo/, [pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]

pendejo m (plural pendejos)

1. A pubic hair

• vello púbico m

pendejo m (plural pendejos, feminine pendeja, feminine plural pendejas)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) arsehole, asshole, dirtbag, scumbag
2. (derogatory) dumbass (stupid person).
3. (chiefly Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay) young boy.
4. (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay) punk (an adolescent who presumes to be an adult).
5. (Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico) coward.
6. (Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, US, Venezuela) dickhead (stupid person).
7. (Bolivia, Peru) smart.

• Although in some contexts sonso, bobo, tonto, menso, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts they have a different degree of intensity, with sonso having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in that rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive meaning.

• peine

• pendejada
• pendejear

• boludo m
• gilipollas m
• tonto
• idiota
• estúpido