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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "TREHS" (as in "tread") + "DEH" (as in "debt") + "LOHS" (as in "loan") + "MEEL" (as in "me") + "deh" (as in "debt") + "MOH" (as in "more") + "nyohs"/

Meaning

Extreme, overwhelming stress in Spain, the kind that makes you feel like everything is collapsing at once. The hyperbolic "of a thousand demons" is a classic peninsular Spanish formula for intensifying any negative state to its absolute maximum.

Examples

I've had insane stress from work for a whole week.

Those kids give the teacher a thousand headaches.

Regional synonyms

To root for two people to get together romantically. Borrowed straight from English "relationship," shipear is internet culture fully absorbed into everyday Spanish across Latin America and Spain. You ship them when the chemistry feels too obvious to ignore.