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/Sounds like the English word "sap" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To snitch, tattle, or rat someone out in Colombia and Venezuela. Sapear is the act of carrying information to someone who should not have it: reporting to the teacher, tipping off the boss, or spreading drama just to stir things up. Getting caught sapeando is a social betrayal that changes how people see you in your group.
“Don't snitch on me to the teacher for being late, I already have enough problems.”
“Someone ratted us out and now the boss knows everything we said in the hallway.”
/Sounds like the English word "sap" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To snitch on someone to a teacher, boss, or authority figure, telling what you saw or found out before anyone even asked. In Chile and Peru, the one who sapea runs to report the moment they get the chance.
“Someone snitched to the teacher and he got a zero.”
“Don't rat out your classmates, it will cost you the friendship.”
/Sounds like the English word "sap" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To spy or secretly watch what someone's doing, or to snitch on someone to an authority in Chile and Peru. The sapo is the nosy busybody who sticks their nose where it doesn't belong and then runs off to tell what they saw.
“Don't sapear my phone, it's private.”
“They sapearon him to the teacher and he got a zero.”
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/Sounds like the English word "sap" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To snitch, tattle, or rat someone out in Colombia and Venezuela. Sapear is the act of carrying information to someone who should not have it: reporting to the teacher, tipping off the boss, or spreading drama just to stir things up. Getting caught sapeando is a social betrayal that changes how people see you in your group.
“Don't snitch on me to the teacher for being late, I already have enough problems.”
“Someone ratted us out and now the boss knows everything we said in the hallway.”
/Sounds like the English word "sap" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To snitch on someone to a teacher, boss, or authority figure, telling what you saw or found out before anyone even asked. In Chile and Peru, the one who sapea runs to report the moment they get the chance.
“Someone snitched to the teacher and he got a zero.”
“Don't rat out your classmates, it will cost you the friendship.”
/Sounds like the English word "sap" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To spy or secretly watch what someone's doing, or to snitch on someone to an authority in Chile and Peru. The sapo is the nosy busybody who sticks their nose where it doesn't belong and then runs off to tell what they saw.
“Don't sapear my phone, it's private.”
“They sapearon him to the teacher and he got a zero.”
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Chavón
In the Dominican Republic, a person, a guy, some dude. The informal Dominican way to refer to any man, friend or stranger, it doesn't matter.