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/Sounds like "BROH" (as in "bro") + "mah" (as in "mark")/

Meaning

A thing, situation, object, or whatever, the ultimate filler word in Venezuela. Broma technically means 'joke' everywhere else, but in Venezuela it covers absolutely anything you can't or don't want to name specifically. It's the 'thingy' or 'whatchamacallit' that holds Venezuelan speech together.

Examples

Hand me that thing over there.

That thing is driving me crazy, it doesn't work.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de España
Movida

/Sounds like "BROH" (as in "bro") + "mah" (as in "mark")/

Meaning

In Venezuela, broma isn't just a joke, it's any thing or object whose name you can't remember. It's the perfect wildcard word for when you don't know what something's called.

Examples

Pass me that broma on the table.

What's that broma you just bought?

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Venezuela
Bandera de Colombia
Bandera de Ecuador
Bandera de Panamá
Vaina
Bandera de Venezuela
Coroto

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A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.