Ecuador
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Ecuador
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Juicy, secret, or scandalous information about other people's lives, shared with excitement and nosiness. Chisme is gossip elevated to an art form in Latin culture. It's humanity's favorite entertainment since the invention of spoken language.
The way you answer the phone in Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and other Latin American countries. It's the standard greeting equivalent of 'hello?' when your phone rings.
Feeling intense secondhand embarrassment from someone else's ridiculous or inappropriate actions. It's that discomfort you feel when someone does something so cringy you're embarrassed for them.
To park a vehicle in Colombia, Venezuela, and Central America — what Mexico calls 'estacionar.' It comes from the English 'to park' adapted into Spanish.
In Latin American folk medicine, an illness caused by a sudden intense fright that separates the soul from the body. It's treated with traditional rituals and herbal remedies, especially in indigenous communities.