Spanish Word of the Day: cojonudo

by Ramses on February 8, 2009 · 3 comments

The “normal” way most Spanish speakers say something’s great, is by saying ¡estupendo!, ¡genial! or ¡maravilloso!. Next to that, Spaniards also use ¡de puta madre! if that’s accepted in the group they’re in, or… ¡cojonudo!.

Cojonudo is a slang and often vulgar word, in which you can see the word cojón (you might know it better in the form of cojones): “testicle”. Yup, like many Spanish slang expressions, it is a bit sexist (de puta madre isn’t the friendliest way to refer to your mother, you know).

So, cojonudo roughly means “great” or “amazing”. According to the dictionary it can also mean “dumb”, although it’s mostly used to describe that something’s great. Often, you can put in the same place as you’d place “f*ck(ing)” in English.

Sentences

Es un jamón cojonudo.
That’s a [f*cking] good jamón.

Lo has hecho cojonudo.
You did that [f*cking] great.

Esa casa me pareció cojonuda, pero no podemos comprarla.
That house looked [f*cking] great, but we can’t buy it.

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Cliff February 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Coño….que buena explicación de cojonudo….

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Bernardo April 10, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Esa casa me pareció cojonuda, pero no podemos comprarla.
That house looked [f*cking] great, but we can’t buy it.

you can buy it because…

esa casa cuesta “un cojon”!

that house cost a lot.

pero a mi eso me importa “tres cojones”

i don’t mind about that

aunque encontrar una casa mejor te va a costar mil pares de cojones

but to find a better house will be harder

pero venga! con dos cojones!

anyway… be brave!

http://www.frikipedia.es/friki/Cojones

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None April 11, 2010 at 3:15 pm

La verdad es que este post es algo viejo, pero ahora que lo veo “desenterrado”, creo que este artículo de Arturo Perez Reverte será muy útil a la hora de entender lo rico que puede llegar a ser el léxico castellano:
http://carmenlobo.blogcindario.com/2007/04/00646-cuestion-de-cojones.html

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