Somos chuchos para las mujeres, coches para el guaro, lagartos para el pisto y culebras con el jefe”

Question

If you translate the following into Spanish, I will be real grateful-really-I will.

“Somos chuchos para las mujeres, coches para el guaro, lagartos para el pisto y culebras con el jefe”, dice Quiroa. Marco Augusto Quiroa from an interview by Gustavo Adolfo Montenegro- Prensa Libre a Guatemalan newspaper.

• HI gus, the sentence in the title please - Heidita Nov 8, 2009

Answer 1

Somos chuchos para las mujeres, coches para el guaro, lagartos para el pisto y culebras con el jefe”, dice Quiroa.

We are gluttons for the women, filthy, rotten slobs for the alcohol, crooks for the money and brown-nosers with the boss

It helps that you have included that this is Guatemalan Spanish as the words can take on the following meanings:

Pisto - dinero (money)

Lagarto - ladron, monrrero (crooks, someone who takes advantage of a situation)

Chucho - Perro, Tragón (Glutton, someone who can never get enough)

Coches - Cochino, Cerdo (filthy, rotten slobs)

Guaro - Licor, Aguardiente (alcohol)

Culebras - Chismosos, Hipócritas (brown-noser, kiss a$$, hypocrite, backbiting)

• Wow...what kind of dictionary do *you* have!!?? Great job on this one! - --Mariana-- Nov 8, 2009
• Yes, where do I find *that* dictionary?? - sunshinzmomm Nov 8, 2009
• Nice, want to buy that dictionary - Silvia Nov 8, 2009
• Thanks you saved me some work. you have my vote and my admiration for ever and ever or at least until you make a translation mistake, - 00769608 Nov 9, 2009
• That shouldn't take long - Izanoni1 Nov 9, 2009

Answer 2

We are pooches for the ladies, carriages for the little parrots, lizards for the ratatouille , and snakes with the boss.

• It is a good effort but it is a no go. Please keep trying. - 00769608 Nov 8, 2009
• by the way waht is a ratatoullle? - 00769608 Nov 8, 2009
• Pisto is a soup, sometimes called Ratatouille. - --Mariana-- Nov 8, 2009

Answer 3

Wow...what kind of dictionary do you have!!?? Great job on this one! - Marianne

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Yes, where do I find that dictionary?? - sunshinzmomm

When I was younger, during my first go around with trying to learn Spanish, I had the good fortune to work with a large group of Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants who spoke nearly no English. I happened to remember a couple of these words from having heard them then and this tipped me off that these were most likely regional usages because the more common meanings did not make a lot of sense.

Still, just to be sure, I cross checked what I remembered in my own dictionary (Pequeño Larousse), and found many them listed there.

I just checked a couple of these in the RAE too and found them listed there as well, and I imagine that if my own Pequeño Larousse has them listed then they can probably all (I haven't checked all of them) be found in the RAE, too.

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Pisto

4. m. Am. Cen. dinero.

Lagarto

3. m. coloq. Hombre pícaro, taimado. U. t. c. adj.

• good job, izan - Heidita Nov 8, 2009
• Thank you Heidita...after all those María José Navarro translations it felt good to translate something that I at least half-recognized - Izanoni1 Nov 8, 2009