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Venezuelan Slang: How to Understand a Caraqueño
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Zape
/Sounds like "SAH" (as in "salsa") + "peh" (as in "pet")/
Meaning
An exclamation used to shoo cats away from wherever they've decided to plant themselves. In Ecuador and Peru, zape is the sound you throw at the cat to get it off your stuff, it rarely works.
Examples
“Shoo! Get off my bed, cat.”
“I said shoo to the neighbor's cat and it just stared at me.”
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Zape
/Sounds like "SAH" (as in "salsa") + "peh" (as in "pet")/
Meaning
An exclamation used to shoo cats away from wherever they've decided to plant themselves. In Ecuador and Peru, zape is the sound you throw at the cat to get it off your stuff, it rarely works.
Examples
“Shoo! Get off my bed, cat.”
“I said shoo to the neighbor's cat and it just stared at me.”
Regional synonyms
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