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/Sounds like "GWAHM" (as in "Guam") + "brah" (as in "bra")/

Meaning

A young person, kid, or teenager in the Andean regions of Ecuador. Guambra comes from Quechua and is the warm, familiar word for youth in the highlands. Whether it is your nephew, your neighbor's kid, or any young person on the block, guambra covers them all.

Examples

The kids today do not respect their elders.

My guambra is already in university, time flies so fast.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Venezuela
Bandera de República Dominicana
Jevito

To become overly attached or fixated on someone or something, refusing to let go even when it is clearly time to move on. The person who is "enclochado" does not listen to reason and cannot see other options, no matter how obvious it is to everyone around them. Used in Colombia.