Un poquito feo

Question

I was in the elevator holding my baby boy when a spanish couple entered after us. The man stated quietly "... un poquito feo." the girl did not respond. I got off at my floor. Google translate says "little ugly." I just want to make sure that there is no convention of calling a cute buy "ugly.." Any opinion would help.

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Answer 1

Feo is not used as an idiom, it only means ugly for appearance, behavior, or general nature of something. To call a baby boy cute, we say "lindo" "mono" "precioso" "divino" "gracioso" "bonito" "chulo" (in this sense), but never "feo".

Answer 2

Some people just aren't nice, and will say things if they think you don't understand them. Because of my appearance ( I look very Gringa) I have experienced insults in Spanish from time to time, and the offenders are shocked when I growl something back at them in Spanish.