My ongoing shopping list.

Question

Hi all,

No, I don´t need to know that a shopping list is called (though I probably should look that up)

This is about the growing list of things my Mexican friends want me to bring back for them. It occurs to me, I probably better know what they´re called. Yes, I looked in the translator, but devoid of context, I´m not sure I trust the results, and at least one sounded too literal to be true.

So, here are the first two requests, of what may be more later.

Cómo se dice ¨wristband¨ come llevan los aficionados de equipos de fútbol.

I need the word for the the type that fans of soccer-fútbol like to wear to show support for their team. I´ve seen them around here, but never paid much attention, and a couple of the maseras at my fav mex place have requested I bring some back. They´re just cheap little plastic things the young seem to like.. Anybody know?

In a similar vein, I´m pretty sure one of the young ladies is likely to start pouring my study-Añejos short, if I don´t bring her back a shot glass (she apparently collects them) from Toluca and-or the D.F. Nobody wants that.

Como se llaman ¨shot glasses¨ en Español?

Any help appreciated.

Muchas gracia por ayudarme.

Answer 1

un vaso de chupito

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solo -> chupito

Not that I know much about this subject but I see them sometimes in tourist shopos. I may have seen one labeled 'dedal' but that also means thimble so I'm not sure on that one. - katydew, Feb 25, 2013

Thanks Katy. - rogspax, Feb 25, 2013

Answer 2

I see them listed as "pulseras de equipo."

Thanks Mariana. Exactly what I was looking for. - rogspax, Feb 26, 2013

Answer 3

And (maybe) answering my own question, but I thought I´d share, I was told by several Mexicans last night at dinner that a shot glass could be ¨un cabellito¨ It was new to me, but they all seemed to agree (and all liked chupito too)

Oh, and ¨un vaso shot¨ but I suspect that may be a regionalism. In Texas, I seem to run across a lot of things that would be a compound word for us (shot glass) that are made into a noun followed by an invariate adjective ¨un vaso shot¨ rather than the ´de form ¨vaso de shot¨. Just something I´ve been noticing lately, and is maybe interliguistic interference. or influence.