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tipo pucho

English translation: kind of loose

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Spanish term or phrase:tipo pucho
English translation:kind of loose
Entered by: Marian Greenfield

17:21 Nov 20, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Textiles / Clothing / Fashion / fashion
Spanish term or phrase: tipo pucho
More teenage Mexican Spanish

Talking about sneakers:

"No, éstas me gustan así tipo pucho"
Marian Greenfield
Local time: 20:38
kind of loose
Explanation:
If you are talking about sneakers
Selected response from:

Teresita Garcia Ruy Sanchez
Mexico
Local time: 17:38
Grading comment
makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +1kind of loose
Teresita Garcia Ruy Sanchez
4loose, they don't have a good shape
Myrtha
3cigarette / fag
Gary Raymond Bokobza
2explicación
Andrea Wright
1tiny
Katerina Kallitsi
1remnant
Сергей Лузан


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
cigarette / fag


Explanation:
"pucho" is a slang word for cigartte or "fag". I hope this might help you

Gary Raymond Bokobza
Spain
Local time: 02:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Juan Jacob: Sneakers / cigarette? I don't get it, and I never heard "pucho". Juan, 29 years in Mexico.
4 mins
neutral  Henry Hinds: It's a slang word for cigarette in Chile, but not in Mexico.
1 hr
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
kind of loose


Explanation:
If you are talking about sneakers

Teresita Garcia Ruy Sanchez
Mexico
Local time: 17:38
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Juan Jacob: Could be... never heard "pucho".
1 min
  -> They use it for a lot of things. Thank you.
agree  Katerina Kallitsi: Could be "soft", too
47 mins
  -> Yes, it could. Most kind of you.
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
explicación


Explanation:
No estoy muy segura a que se refiere, aqui en Ecuador "pucho" tiene dos significados:
1) Nariz pequeña, acachatada
2) colilla del cigarillo

No se si te ayude en algo esta explicación uqe trae el diccionario de la RAE

Residuo, pequeña cantidad sobrante de alguna cosa 2 colilla del cigarro

Andrea Wright
Local time: 19:38
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
tiny


Explanation:
Tambien, en web he encontrado una expression, que Se refierre al lenguaje tipo Pucho, significando de Buenos Aires, de Hijitus, un personaje del comic nacional

Katerina Kallitsi
Local time: 03:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
loose, they don't have a good shape


Explanation:
I have heard cucho, and it is what I am translating. I have not heard pucho

Myrtha
United States
Local time: 20:38
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
remnant


Explanation:
perhaps (?). I wonder what it might be. Just in case...
(LAm)(resto) scrap, left-over(s); dregs; (sewing) remnant; (Fin) coppers, small change; (figurative: nimiedad) trifle, mere nothing; a puchos = in dribs & drabs
(c) (And, Cono Sur) youngest child.
¡Buena suerte, Marian Greenfield!

Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Local time: 03:38
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
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