güey

Meaning

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

Concepts

dude

chap

fellow

guy

man

👨

mush

bloke

Mameluke

Synonyms

tío

tipo

colega

flaco

mano

✋

sujeto

tonto

tronco

compadre

wey

che

parce

buey

🐂

tío

chaval

🧒

Translations

cara

kerel

vent

Typ

Witzfigur

Macker

leichtgläubiges Opfer

mec

mamelouk

mameluk

amico

zio

socio

maat

makker

🧉

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡwei/

Etymology

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/.