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Spanish Slang Spanish has plenty of local slang words that aren't understood throughout the Spanish-speaking world. This forum can help you deal with Spanish slang words that are primarily used in a certain area.

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Old 04-18-2008, 01:43 PM   #11
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En el D.R.A.E. aparece chele, de origen nahuatl (celic = 'cosa verde o tierna' ).
Según el D.R.A.E. en El Salvador y Costa Rica llama chela, a la 'persona muy blanca o rubia'. Quizás chela podría derivarse de esto, en alusión al color rubio de la cerveza.
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Apart from being a synonim for "cerveza", in México, "Chela" is also the nickname of Marcela or Graciela, so some guys use to say "Dame una Graciela bien muerta", which actually means "Dame una cerveza bien fría" (Give me a very cold beer).

Unfortunately, I have no idea how "chela" became a synonim of cerveza.

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Dame una Graciela bien muerta.

Jesús!!! NO se me hubiera ocurrido nunca que eso fuera cerveza bien fría!!
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En el D.R.A.E. aparece chele, de origen nahuatl (celic = 'cosa verde o tierna' ).
Según el D.R.A.E. en El Salvador y Costa Rica llama chela, a la 'persona muy blanca o rubia'. Quizás chela podría derivarse de esto, en alusión al color rubio de la cerveza.

en el DRAE también está chelo/a, proveniente del maya "chel", que significa azul y se aplica en México a las personas rubias de ojos azules. creo q por ahí debe venir la similitud: rubia = cerveza (rubia, claro).

me encantó lo de la "chela bien muerta". muy gracioso. en Argentina también le decimos "birra" (como en italiano)... de cualquier manera, creo q es información muy útil saber decirlo en varios idiomas -no vaya a ser q uno se encuentre en otro país y no sepa pedirla, y tenga q terminar tomando una gaseosa ! jajaja
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