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big party. Pajuato probably comes from the Spanish word pazguato which describes a person that is prudish.

A chícharo (the Spanish word for “pea”) is a very hard exam, though “Pepito no disparó un chícharo” (“Pepito did not shoot a pea”) means that Pepito failed to do something that he could have or should have done. Mecharse means to study very hard and a mechazo is an intense, all night study session. A finalista (a “finalist”) is a person that crams for the exam at the last possible moment. We were all finalistas at some point.

Some kids are mocosos, bratty kids behaving badly or attempting to act older than they are. The literal meaning of the word is snotty, like a baby with a runny nose that