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/Sounds like "GREE" (as in "greet") + "pah" (as in "park")/
A bad flu or heavy cold in Mexico and Colombia with the full package of symptoms. When you get a gripa, it's coughing, runny nose, fever, body aches, and feeling like you got hit by a truck.
“I've got a gripa so bad I can barely breathe.”
“The gripa knocked me out for the whole week.”
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/Sounds like "GREE" (as in "greet") + "pah" (as in "park")/
A bad flu or heavy cold in Mexico and Colombia with the full package of symptoms. When you get a gripa, it's coughing, runny nose, fever, body aches, and feeling like you got hit by a truck.
“I've got a gripa so bad I can barely breathe.”
“The gripa knocked me out for the whole week.”
Ser un pelmazo
In Spain, an insufferably tiresome and persistent person who never reads the room. A pelmazo latches on, goes on and on about the same topic, and genuinely cannot tell that everyone around them checked out long ago. The word comes from "pelma," a dense sticky mass, which is exactly how it feels to be around one.