pandejo
/pænˈdeɪhoʊ/
pandejo noun: one who is foolishly reckless around COVID-19.
Noun
pandejo (plural pandejos)
- One who is foolishly reckless around COVID-19.
- It’ll happen until we, like these three people bravely did during their reckonings with the dreaded disease, begin to truly call out pandejo behavior. […] He does think we need to call out pandejos, but in a way that makes them “realize that we [Latinos] can take care of each other and pull through...2020 December 3, Gustavo Arellano, “Don’t be a ‘pandejo.’ Take the pandemic seriously”, in Los Angeles Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021
- This is infamously "pandejo" central — the home of pandemic pendejos, or blockheads.2021 August 4, Gustavo Arellano, “At my wife's Santa Ana market, the masks have never come off”, in The Los Angeles Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021
- Synonyms:
- covidiot
Synonyms of pandejo
Forms of pandejo
| plural | pandejos |
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Origin of pandejo
Likely borrowed from Spanish pandejo (see below), or formed in English from pandemic and Spanish pendejo (“contemptible person”). Attested from 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Questions about pandejo
- What does pandejo mean?
- Pandejo means one who is foolishly reckless around COVID-19.
- What part of speech is pandejo?
- Pandejo is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pandejo?
- Pandejo is pronounced /pænˈdeɪhoʊ/.
- What is the plural of pandejo?
- The plural of pandejo is pandejos.
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