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/Sounds like "teen" (as in "tea") + "teh" (as in "ten") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/
A low-rate lawyer who charges cheap fees but always makes things worse rather than better. In Colombia and Peru the tinterillo promises to win your case and ends up burying you in paperwork.
“Don't go to that hack lawyer, he'll leave you in a worse situation.”
“The neighborhood shyster charged a lot and solved absolutely nothing.”
/Sounds like "teen" (as in "tea") + "teh" (as in "ten") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/
A shady, underqualified, or unethical lawyer who handles minor matters sloppily and is not to be trusted with anything serious. In Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia the term carries a well-established contemptuous meaning.
“He hired a shady lawyer who barely knows the civil code.”
“That hack charges a lot and gets nothing done.”
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/Sounds like "teen" (as in "tea") + "teh" (as in "ten") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/
A low-rate lawyer who charges cheap fees but always makes things worse rather than better. In Colombia and Peru the tinterillo promises to win your case and ends up burying you in paperwork.
“Don't go to that hack lawyer, he'll leave you in a worse situation.”
“The neighborhood shyster charged a lot and solved absolutely nothing.”
/Sounds like "teen" (as in "tea") + "teh" (as in "ten") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/
A shady, underqualified, or unethical lawyer who handles minor matters sloppily and is not to be trusted with anything serious. In Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia the term carries a well-established contemptuous meaning.
“He hired a shady lawyer who barely knows the civil code.”
“That hack charges a lot and gets nothing done.”
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Porongo
In Uruguay and Argentina, a mild insult for someone acting dumb, clumsy, or without any common sense. The image behind the word is the porongo, a hollow gourd used to drink mate: empty on the inside, nothing going on upstairs.