A-Z Modismos Costarricenses

Question

Category: Costa Rican Sayings / Modismos costarricenses

I will give the first word that begins with "A", and (today only) the second word beginning with "B" because it means something to special to me. Then you post a word that starts with "C", then "D" and so on. Please put your answer in Spanish, and provide an English translation.

My Word:

A - achantado (lazy, pedro no ha terminado su trabajo; esta achantado)

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modismos costarricenses

Answer 1

B - bagaces - vagabundo

Answer 2

Desmadre o Despiche = Significa cuando una persona o un grupo de personas hace alborotos en algùn lugar = means that ore or more persons has misbehaved somewhere

"mae que desmadre el que hicimos aquel dìa"
"mae deje de hacer desmadre"

Another link. I would love to help you out on your collection of modismos, but: my 'normal' spanish is nowhere good enough to understand all these example sentences and definitions right away. Being a gringa 'over there' I will never need them myself ;-) - mcl020, Mar 13, 2012

Answer 3

Cenit = zenith

La luna alcanza su cenit.