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Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Nonstandard pronunciation-spelling variant of buey (literally “ox”) (see that entry for more); this form thus represents a deshifting of /bw/ back to /ɡw/. Compare nonstandard güeno from bueno (“good”), agüelo from abuelo (“grandfather”), güelvo from vuelvo (“to return”), where /bwe/ becomes /ɡwe/. A similar phenomenon occurs in the dialectal pronunciation of Lithuanian buvai as /ɡwuei/.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (spelling pronunciation) /ˈɡwei/
- IPA(key): (colloquial pronunciation) /ˈw̝ei/
- Rhymes: -ei
Noun
güey m (plural güeyes)
- (Mexico, colloquial slang) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
- Synonyms: cabrón, tonto
- (Mexico, colloquial slang) dude, guy, buddy
- Synonyms: (Mexico) carnal, (Mexico) cuate, (Spain) tío, (Spain) tía; see also Thesaurus:tío
- (Rioplatense, Paraguay) Pronunciation spelling of buey.
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