Feminine

guagua

Meaning

  1. (feminine) a trivial thing
  2. (Canary-Islands, Caribbean, feminine) bus (with a fixed route)
  3. (Cuba, Dominican-Republic, feminine) hemipter

Hyphenated as
gua‧gua
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡwaɡwa/
Etymology

In summary

Possibly onomatopoeic of the sound made by the wheel suspension of the bus, though the Royal Spanish Academy considers this proposed etymology debatable.

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