Chile
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Chile
All expressions
A super fun, hilarious person who makes every gathering better. In Chile, a 'bacilón' is the one everyone wants at the party — always ready with a joke, a story, or an impression that has everyone crying with laughter. A night with a bacilón is never boring.
To pay attention to someone, notice them, or give them the time of day. In Chile, 'no pescar' is devastating: it means someone looked straight through you as if you were invisible. When you like someone and they don't pescar you, it stings.
A Chilean cowboy, a rural farm worker or someone with country manners. In Chile huaso carries cultural pride — it's deeply tied to the rodeo and the rural traditions of the Central Valley.
Chile's iconic crusty white bread roll, shaped like two conjoined buns — crispy outside, soft inside. The marraqueta is so central to Chilean life that a day without it feels incomplete.
To have a gut feeling, a hunch, or an intuition about something that can't be rationally explained. In Chile, 'tincarse' is trusting that internal signal — when something feels right or wrong before you can articulate why. Chileans take their tincas seriously.