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/Sounds like "CHEEN" (as in "cheek") + "toh" (as in "toll")/

Meaning

A Guatemalan adjective for describing something small, tiny, insignificant in size. "Un chinto de azúcar" means a little bit of sugar. Also used for short people or minimum portions of anything. A daily word in the kitchen, at the store, in conversations about quantities. It marks the informal Chapín register and is one of those words Guatemalans miss when traveling.

Examples

Give me a little bit of salt.

That kid is really small.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Bolivia
Pititi

In Mexico, nonsense, stupidity, or anything said or done without any basis in reality. "No digas mamadas" is the direct, blunt way of telling someone to stop talking rubbish. Very common in casual Mexican speech.