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güey

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(Inglese)

(Mexico, colloquial, masculine, slang) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
(Mexico, colloquial, masculine, slang) dude, guy, buddy
(Paraguay, Rioplatense, alt-of, masculine, pronunciation-spelling) pronunciation spelling of buey

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈɡwei/

Nonstandard pronunciation-spelling variant of buey (literally “ox”) (see that entry for more); this form thus represents a shifting of /bw/ back to /ɡw/. Compare nonstandard güeno from bueno (“good”), agüelo from abuelo (“grandfather”), güelvo from vuelvo (“to return”), where /bwe/ becomes /ɡwe/. A similar phenomenon occurs in the dialectal pronunciation of Lithuanian buvai as /ɡwuei/.