- Slang School
- Season 1
- Episode 57
Eva Longoria and Michael Peña Teach You Mexican Slang
Eva Longoria and Michael Peña each test their knowledge of Mexican slang. From "no manches" to "tocayo," they take you through some of the classic phrases used in Mexican culture. Dora and the Lost City of Gold is in theaters everywhere August 9.
Released on 08/07/2019
Hi, I'm Eva Longoria.
And I'm Michael Pena.
And we're here today to teach you Mexican--
We are Mexican American, so we may not get all of these
Mexican slangs correct.
We do know it.
I think it's gonna be in our subconscious.
[Mexican swing music]
Do Diego Luna.
I know mom is going neta.
[laughing] [speaking Spanish]
Neta means, like, really, seriously?
No manches! No manches!
Get outta here! As much as we--
No, no manches is there's a lot of different definitions.
It's like get out of here, almost.
Get out of here, shut up. Yeah, shut up.
No, really? Shut up.
Or like, yep, he's like, yeah, you gonna be there tomorrow?
Yeah, good job, Michael's killin' this Mexican slang game.
Aguas, very, hold on, hold on, chill, chill, chill, chill.
Aguas means watch out. Aguas, aguas, aguas, aguas.
It actually means watch out, like cuidado.
But aguas translates as water. To water.
Like, you go, water!
But I think it comes from-- Water, water, water,
water, water. When people used to
dump out their toilet water in the 18th century
out the window, so they would go, aguas.
And now that just means be careful.
Yeah, well, which is funny, because if you say aguas,
you're opening your mouth and you're like, aguas!
It means Mexican American, it was a politicized term
in the civil rights movement,
but we've kind of adopted it.
I don't know why I pointed to you. [laughing]
'Cause it means fart.
[speaking Spanish] But also means drunk, right?
[speaking Spanish] was he's drunk, he's drunk, no?
And the other one is [speaking Spanish],
there's like, no, no drama. Mm.
Is like, a job.
Like a pretty hard job.
Like what we're doing now.
Si, like chamba.
Fresa. That's usually
valley girl people from Mexico.
In Mexico City. And we're like, oh my God.
Everywhere, like, every country has their own rich people,
and they always talk really
they kind of talk the same, like, they talk, like really--
Oh no, they all sound the same>
Really lazy and like, oh, absolutely,
like in England, it's like that.
And Mexico's the same way, he's like, [speaking Spanish].
It's like valley girls here, you know?
Valley girls are like, and everything in a question.
It's the same, that's a fresa.
And it's kind of interesting?
You know who says this a lot?
No, you mean Jorge Lopez.
[snaps] [bleep]in' awesome, dude.
That's another word for awesome.
Mexican slang has a lot words for awesome.
Yeah, it's just 'ckin' awesome.
Somebody who's drunk that wants to say
there's a narco but he's, oh naco.
[Eva] Nay, naco.
So, naco is for somebody who's like tacky,
and like, eww, that's real naco.
Hey Don, I'm goin' to the house real quick.
I'm a-goin' by my high nah,
and I'm gonna go get a 40.
I was a chola growing up,
I had the real thin eyebrows.
I live in Texas, there was cholos.
For real? Yeah.
But I think they were made famous by east LA.
You know, like, there's this one person that I follow
on Instagram, CholoFit.
He does basically like prison workouts.
And he's like, he's like, you wanna stand like that
and then go down, right?
But always look out in the yard.
That's a cholo. Always look out
in the yard, eh?
Feel that power, eh?
Metiche is like-- Like a nosy person?
Is somebody who shares your name.
We don't have a word for that in English,
which is so funny.
So if I met somebody named Eva, they'd be mi tocaya.
That's my lady, dog.
That's my girl!
My husband calls me vieja.
But it translates to old woman Old woman.
Padre, my dad, or that's cool, ta padre.
Oh, es muy padre, oh yeah! Es muy padre.
The literal translation is father,
and then the es muy padre is cool.
Ta padre. So it's real cool.
I don't know that one.
I'm on high rollers, though.
I'm all crudo.
It also means raw.
Like, sushi would be crudo.
Chorro means diarrhea.
And especially in Mexico, like, foreigners come in,
My dad says that all time. Son of a--
But it comes from--
Maybe come from frijole.
Son of a gun.
Listen up. Listen up.
What's up, mother[bleep]er?
What's up, dude?
What's up, [bleep]ass?
What's up, homey?
Well, I think it it means dude,
more like, what up, dude? It means dude.
Yeah, [speaking Spanish].
Que onda! Que onda!
[laughing] What's up?
Give me a high five, goddammit!
I am Michael Pena.
And I'm Eva Longoria.
Thanks for watching.
Starring: Eva Longoria , Michael Pena
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