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/Sounds like "moh" (as in "more") + "RREE" + "nyah" (as in "Nyan")/

Meaning

An intense, deep homesickness for your homeland in Spain, especially associated with Galicians who've emigrated. It's a bittersweet longing for the land, the food, the people, and everything you left behind.

Examples

The homesickness hits hard when you smell food from back home.

Every Galician abroad carries that deep homesickness in their heart.

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Regional synonyms

To take a comment or joke personally when it was not aimed at you. In Mexico, someone who "se toma el palo" gets defensive over something that had nothing to do with them, which usually just confirms everyone else's suspicion that it actually did.