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olé. interjection. ¡Ole! or ¡olé! is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance, especially associated with the audience of bullfighting and flamenco dance. The word is also commonly used in many other contexts in Spain, and has become closely associated with the country; therefore it is often used outside Spain in ...
Cholo ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃolo]) is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of castas, the informal ranking of society by heritage.
In the Spanish language, the word gabacho ( f.gabacha) describes foreigners of different national origins in the history of Spain.The word gabacho originated in Peninsular Spain, as a derogatory term for "French" people and things, and in contemporary usage term retains the initial meaning, however, in other Hispanophone countries, the word gabacho acquired a meaning similar to the word guiri ...
Albur. An albur (plural: albures) is a word play in Mexican Spanish that involves a double entendre . The first meaning in the Spanish language of albur refers to contingency or chance to which the result is trusted. Like in: "Leave nothing to the albur" or "it was worth the risk of an albur". The term originally referred to the hidden cards in ...
Naco. (slang) Naco (fem. naca) is a pejorative word often used in Mexican Spanish that may be translated into English as "low-class", "uncultured", "vulgar" or "uncivilized ". [1] A naco ( Spanish: [ˈnako] ⓘ) is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes. Although, it is used across all socioeconomic classes, when associated with ...
Elle (Spanish pronunciation:, or less commonly plural: elles) is a proposed non-normative personal pronoun in Spanish intended as a grammatically ungendered alternative to the third-person gender-specific pronouns él ("he"), ella ("she") and ello ("it"). There are three main objectives of the term:
The term "code blue" is a hospital emergency code used to describe the critical status of a patient. Hospital staff may call a code blue if a patient goes into cardiac arrest, has respiratory ...
Álvaro de Luna ( (between 1388 and 1390–1453), Spanish Constable of Castile. Álvaro Noboa (born 1950), Ecuadorian businessman and politician. Álvaro Obregón (1880–1928), Mexican general and President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 1952), President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010.