Puertorro
n.— «Tambien sabe el puertorro que antes de la guerra (la segunda claro esta) lna se la servian a los puercos.…?Que puertorro no ha comido en una cafeteria un plato de conbi’ con papa (no se confunda con congri)?…El puertorro sabe de lo que hablo, pues todos saben el bauyu’ que se formo’ con la polica y los de la marginal, la autopista y los chicarroneros…» —“PG-13 Caribbean Cuisine And Politics” Usenet: soc.culture.latin-america Jan. 26, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Martha from Tallahassee, Florida, remembers hearing older relatives announce they were going for their constitutional, a term that traces back to Latin constitutio, meaning “character,” “disposition,” “nature,” or “the essence of a thing.” Its...
When a teenager went a week without talking as part of a school project, he noticed a surprising side effect: Instead of rehearsing a response to what other people were saying to him, he was focused on listening — and feeling smarter as a result...