- SAMAR, SAMADERA
- Frequently used to describe the coyly romantic overtures between two lovers.
- SAMBAMBÉ
- When this starts you would better be leaving: Last night at the dance the boys started a samabambé
that needed a truckload of police officers to stop ...
- SAMURO
- Also used in other Latinamerican countries for various meanings, Dominicans apply this noun only to a
non purebred fighting cock .
- SAN
- Of unknown origin with a very special importance to Dominicans: A san is a kind of game where you
and other participants agree to deposit a fixed sum of money each day, week or month; before the start of the game
you draw a number which will indicate your turn to collect the pool sum deposited ; the organizer of the san has
automatically gets the privilege to the number one and all participants must keep depositing until everbody had his turn
to draw the pool - what sounds like a lot of fun is a very serious financing alternative for many people over here ...
- SANCOCHO
- Is the Dominican pronounciation for "Salcocho" as it this stewlike dish is known in other
Latinamerican places. But here a sanchocho can also be attributed to a rather unorganized human crowd.
- TABANÁ, TÁBANO
- Both hurt but differently: former is the slapping of the flat hand in someone's face and latter is a bee sized beetle
that can sting you occasionally.
- TAJALON ,TAJALANA
- Is used to describe the unusual body size of youngsters: "your son is only seven ? - he sure is a tajalón and will
make a great baseball player ..."
- TAQUILLAZO
- Most probably the best translation for this popular activity is " to drink shots of alcohol", mostly taquillazos
of dark rum, of course.
- TEMBLEQUE
- In Puerto Rico this noun identifies a jelly - like dessert, here it is applied to a frighted person.
- TONGONEAR
- Well, if your legs feel and behave like a tembleque and because now you are using the whole sidewalk, bouncing
from one side to the other ... then you are tongonear ing
- TIBIAR
- Is the dominicanized version of the Spanish verb "entibiar" which is used when heating up water or soup on
the stove.
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