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/Sounds like "mah" (as in "mark") + "RAH" (as in "rapper") + "nyah" (as in "Nyan")/

Meaning

A tangled mess that is hard to sort out, whether it is a pile of wires, a complicated financial situation, or a web of people and problems all knotted together. Used across Mexico and Central America for anything so entangled that finding a clear way out is genuinely difficult.

Examples

They created such a mess with the business accounts that nobody can make sense of it.

There is a tangle of cables behind the desk that nobody wants to deal with.

Regional synonyms

Naked, in the buff, with nothing on, or practically nothing. In Mexico, if someone shows up encuerado, they're wearing their birthday suit. It can also describe someone caught in a very awkward state of undress at the wrong moment.