Terms I've learned this weekend:
"Coco vacía" - literally, empty coconut; figuratively, when you expect to receive something good but there's nothing in it. (Also for when your home's been gutted.)
"Un canalla" - a degraded person, but the key here is that this is the nastiest thing one might say in *polite, political company*. There are plenty of worse words, but this one is used to accuse another public figure of being a disreputable POS without being seen as vulgar oneself. #ContextIsKey!
😅 Great applied usage - but we also don't need to be so polite!
Would it help any if I just refer to him as an serial lying accused rapist bone spur coward and treasonous fascist wannabe dictator who is nothing more than a brainless thug punk orange dumpy gonad with bad hair and feet?
Hmm, I assume that's a "dog" root in that latter one. Our opinion of dogs has certainly improved over time!
From the Italian "canaglia", oddly enough! We use dogs for a lot, don't we? Dogged determination, dog days of summer, dog-eat-dog world, screwing the pooch (😬), you dog!, you bitch!, you curr!, doggy bag, etc.
Come to think of it, the dog theme gets a little overworked, no? We *might* not be as creative as we like to think. 🙃
Ewww, I'd never heard the pooch one. 😬 Maybe we need to bring back curr though, as in "You Scurvy Curr!"
Otherwise, let's be kinder to our canine friends!
@MLClark
Thanks for sharing this. I never realized until now that the 'coco vacia' Trump was 'un canalla' until now!