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/Sounds like "wah" (as in "water") + "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "foh" (as in "foam")/
Tacky, in bad taste, or exaggeratedly showy without any real elegance. In Peru, huachafo describes anything that tries too hard to look refined but ends up looking ridiculous: flashy without substance, loud without style, expensive-looking without the class.
“That tacky gift is not going to fit in at that kind of event.”
“The venue's decor was incredibly overdone, way too much going on everywhere.”
/Sounds like "wah" (as in "water") + "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "foh" (as in "foam")/
A person or thing that's tacky, cheesy, or pretentious in Peru. The huachafo tries to be elegant or sophisticated but fails so badly it causes secondhand embarrassment, like wearing a blazer with shorts to a wedding.
“That dress is so huachafo.”
“Don't be huachafo, just dress normal.”
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/Sounds like "wah" (as in "water") + "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "foh" (as in "foam")/
Tacky, in bad taste, or exaggeratedly showy without any real elegance. In Peru, huachafo describes anything that tries too hard to look refined but ends up looking ridiculous: flashy without substance, loud without style, expensive-looking without the class.
“That tacky gift is not going to fit in at that kind of event.”
“The venue's decor was incredibly overdone, way too much going on everywhere.”
/Sounds like "wah" (as in "water") + "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "foh" (as in "foam")/
A person or thing that's tacky, cheesy, or pretentious in Peru. The huachafo tries to be elegant or sophisticated but fails so badly it causes secondhand embarrassment, like wearing a blazer with shorts to a wedding.
“That dress is so huachafo.”
“Don't be huachafo, just dress normal.”
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Pringarse
To get mixed up in something shady or morally compromising, ending up tainted by association. In Spain, once you are "pringado" there is no pretending you were not involved. The word literally means getting covered in grease or fat, and socially it means you are implicated whether you meant to be or not.