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/Sounds like "FREH" (as in "fresh") + "teh" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

Someone bold, direct, and unapologetically outspoken in Peru, a person who says exactly what they think with no filter and no apology. Frete can be admired as confident or read as aggressive depending on context. Lima's word for someone who does not beat around the bush.

Examples

Do not ask him if you do not want the truth, that guy is brutally direct.

She is blunt but she is right about everything she says.

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Regional synonyms

In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, neighborhood gossip and idle chatter that travels mouth to mouth, always arriving exaggerated to the last person who hears it.