resaca n.— «Let’s look at Brownsville, Texas: You have got the Rio Grande river coming down; you have a thing called resacas, which is the Spanish term for ox-bow lakes, they’re a natural phenomenon.» —“We’ve Had 40 Years of Total...
pollito n.— «A section of Greyhound’s “Transportation of Illegal Aliens” guidelines that deals with how to identify an immigrant smuggler cautions em ployees to be on the lookout for people who use the Spanish word pollito...
wila n. a surreptitious note (sent by or between prisoners); a kite. Editorial Note: Pronounced “WHEE-lah.” Etymological Note: This is an Anglicized or Spanglish spelling of the Mexican Spanish güila or huila, that, according to...
brebas n.— «While some figs offer one crop per year, others provide two. The crop of the season, call brebas (from the Spanish, meaning “first fig”) grows on the previous year’s wood and typically ripens earlier in the summer...
cazamigrante n.— «A group of lawyers have come together in San Diego to recruit legal observers to closely watch the Minutemen, or as they’re called in Spanish, cazamigrantes, that are planning to arrive at the border near Tecate on Sept...
dog collar match n.— «The first match was Mini Abismo Negro vs. Mascarita Sagrada, who ROOLS, so I thought I might watch it. Then I saw that is was a bull terrier match, which apparently is the Spanish term for dog collar match...