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/Sounds like "BOH" (as in "boat") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/

Meaning

A cooked cornmeal patty wrapped in a banana leaf or corn husk, served as a side dish in Colombia and Panama. Bollos come in several varieties: plain, with cheese, or with chicharrón. On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, a bollo alongside sancocho and suero is the quintessential coastal breakfast.

Examples

I ordered the sancocho with a bollo and suero on the side.

The cheese bollos from the market in Cartagena are genuinely the best ones you will ever try.

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/Sounds like "BOH" (as in "boat") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/

Meaning

A sweet bread roll in Spain eaten at any time of day. In Colombia and Panama, a bollo is a corn dough wrapped in leaves eaten as a side dish, something completely different.

Examples

I had a bollo with coffee for breakfast.

The cheese bollos from the bakery are fresh out of the oven.

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A blockhead or dimwit who makes the most basic mistakes over and over, in Spain, Argentina, and Chile. A zoquete is not just clueless once: they are consistently, reliably wrong no matter how patiently you explain things.