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/Sounds like "SWEH" (as in "sweat") + "tehr" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

A knit garment for keeping warm when temperatures drop. In Mexico and Colombia, the suéter is that piece your mom forces you to bring 'just in case' even when it's ninety degrees outside.

Examples

Put on a suéter, it's freezing.

My girlfriend gave me this suéter as a gift.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Perú
Bandera de Ecuador
Bandera de Bolivia
Chompa
Bandera de Bolivia
Bandera de Ecuador
Bandera de Perú
Chompa

To be in a terrible situation or feeling absolutely awful. In Mexico, this phrase covers physical misery like being sick, emotional rock-bottom, or just having the worst day imaginable with no energy left to fix anything.