lunfardo

m.

thief.

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lunfardo

► nombre masculino

1 Buenos Aires slang

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SM

1) Arg local slang of Buenos Aires

2) Cono Sur criminal slang, language of the underworld

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masculino Buenos Aires slang

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masculino Buenos Aires slang

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lunfardo¹ -da

adjective

Buenos Aires slang (before n)

lunfardo²

masculine

lunfardo (↑ lunfardo a1)

Buenos Aires slang

CULTURAL NOTE

lunfardo

A form of Buenos Aires slang that originated in the underworld. It draws on many languages, including Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and several African languages. It has found its way into popular songs and theater. Lunfardo words in standard colloquial speech are: morfar (to eat), güita (money), and mina (woman).

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lunfardo sustantivo masculino
Buenos Aires slang

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lunfardo nm

= working-class Buenos Aires slang

LUNFARDO

Lunfardo was the lower-class slang of Buenos Aires in the early years of the 20th century. It was heavily influenced by the speech of the Italian immigrants who arrived in Argentina in huge numbers around the turn of the century. Its vocabulary was popularized through the words of tango music, and many terms have entered popular speech throughout the River Plate region. Despite its humble origins, lunfardo is now widely regarded as a fundamental part of the cultural heritage of Buenos Aires, and an academy dedicated to its study was founded in 1962. Nowadays it survives more in the words of classic tango songs than in daily use. Nevertheless, one of the typical features of lunfardo persists in popular speech – the inversion of the syllables in a standard Spanish word. Thus one can hear “lorca” used instead of “calor” or “ofri” instead of “frío”, and this can be applied to almost any word.

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lunfardo

m Arg : slang used in Buenos Aires