Re: [CH] Puta Pario
Oscar Crescente (ocrescen@cumana.sucre.udo.edu.ve)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:44:37 -0400
It comes from a very common expresion in
southern south america: la puta que te parió!!!.
It would be the equivalent of dammit, or God damm you!.
Literally means: the whore who gave birth to you. I guess
it has to do with the very strong taste of the chile,
Oscar Crescente
At 07:11 AM 10/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:57:25 -0700 "Doug Goldenberg"
><dgoldenberg@sprintmail.com> writes:
>>Hey - anyone know what "puta pario" means? There is an aji pepper from
>>Argentina by this name.
>
>a "puta" is a prostitute, a whore...
>
>my velasquez (the spanish funk & wagnalls) has only one reference to
>"pario":
>
>pario (marmol), a. parian marble
>
>(that's the stone, not the toy)...i would guess that paria is an area in
>some spanish-speaking country which is famous for its marble...which,
>unless the chile is marble colored, probably has nothing to do with
>anything...
>
>a SWAG would be that it is argentine slang, something close to "the
>mother of all aji"...
>or, it could be making reference to paria, and translate as "hot as a
>parian whore"...
>
>[ouch!...skinned another knuckle!]
>
>t.l.
>
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