güera
n.— «I’m in the middle; I get judged twice. If I do speak Spanish, everyone is, “Whoa,” and if I don’t speak Spanish, the Mexicans are saying, “She’s just another guera (light person).”» —“Cultural learning curve” by Elizabeth Aguilera Denver Post (Colorado) July 18, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
An anadrome is a word that forms a whole new word when you spell it backwards. For example, the word “stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts.” Some people’s first names are anadromes. There’s the girl named Noel...
A flashlight doesn’t flash. It provides a steady beam of light. So why is it called a flashlight? The earliest versions lit up only briefly before the batteries gave out and required a recharge, so they were literally “flash lights...
This was my father’s pet name for my mother, who was blonde with blue eyes. I understand it to be a kind name meaning “blondie”.