Welcome to the Lunfardo Dictionary A, your comprehensive guide to the Lunfardo language! On this page, dedicated to the letter “A,” you will find a ton of Lunfardo words, each followed by its meaning in standard Spanish and then translated into English for easy understanding.
Lunfardo Dictionary A – Words in Lunfardo, Spanish and English
| A la gurda: Refugio, guarida (English: Refuge, lair) |
| Abacanado: Presuntosos (English: Suspected suspects) |
| Abanicar: Agente Policial (English: Police officer) |
| Abanicarse: Irse (English: Go to) |
| Abanico: Soplón / Agente policial (English: Snitch / Police agent) |
| Abaragar: Parar con el cuchillo los golpes del adversario (English: To stop with the knife the blows of the adversary) |
| Abatatado: Asustado (English: Scared) |
| Abatatarse: Asustarse (English: Get scared) |
| Ablandado: Asustado / Sobornado (English: Scared / Bribed) |
| Ablandar: Sobornar (English: Bribe) |
| Ablandarse: Asustarse (English: Scared) |
| Abocado: Irreflexivo (English: Unthinking) |
| Abocarse: Precipitarse (English: Precipitate) |
| Abombado: Tonto (English: Foolish) |
| Abotonado: Casado (abrochado, acoyarado, casoriado) (English: Married (abrochado, acoyarado, casoriado)) |
| Abotonarse: Casarse (English: Marry) |
| Abrancar: Atrapar (English: Catch) |
| Abricola: Distraído (English: Distracted) |
| Abriles: sinónimo de años (English: synonym of years) |
| Abrir cancha: Despejar el sitio de una contienda (English: To clear the site of a quarrel) |
| Abrirse: Apartarse, desviarse, hacerse a un lado (English: To move away, to deviate, to step aside) |
| Abrochado: Casado (English: Married) |
| Academia: Salones de baile, mujeres, tragos (English: Dance halls, women, drinks) |
| Acamala: Guardar, cargar (English: To keep, to carry) |
| Acamalador: Tacaño (English: Stingy) |
| Acamalar: Acaparar / Proteger / Atrapar, asir / Ahorrar mezquinando (English: Hoarding / Protecting / Catching, grabbing / Saving by stinginess) |
| Acamalarse: Amancebarse (English: Affair) |
| Acanalar: Herir con arma blanca (English: Wounding with a knife) |
| Aceitado: Sobornado (English: Bribed) |
| Aceitar los patines: Prostituir, cafishiar (English: Prostitute, cafishiar) |
| Aceitar: Sobornar (English: Bribe) |
| Aceite, dar el: Despido (English: Dismissal) |
| Aceite, tomarse el: Irse rápidamente (English: To leave quickly) |
| Aceite: Soborno (English: Bribery) |
| Aceitosa: Cabeza (English: Head) |
| Aceitunas, cambiar el agua de las: Orinar (English: Urinate) |
| Aceitunas, le dieron las: Despido (English: Dismissal) |
| Aceitunas, tomarse las: Irse rápidamente (English: Leaving quickly) |
| Achacado: Achacoso (English: Achacoso) |
| Achacador: Malhechor (English: Miscreant) |
| Achaco: Robo (English: Theft) |
| Achicar: Acobardar (English: Cowardly) |
| Achuchado: Asustado (English: Frightened) |
| Achumado: Ebrio (English: Drunk) |
| Achumarse: Embriagarse (English: Drunk) |
| Achurar: Asesinar (English: Murder) |
| Acomodado: Recomendado (English: Recommended) |
| Acomodar: Recomendar, influenciar / Zurrar (English: Recommend, influence / Zurrar) |
| Acomodo: Influencia favorable (English: Favorable influence) |
| Acoyarado: Casado (English: Married) |
| Acoyarse: Casarse (English: Marry) |
| Acuñado: Recomendado (English: Recommended) |
| Acuñar: Recomendar, favorecer (English: Recommend, favor) |
| Adicón: Factura de gastos del restaurante (English: Restaurant expense bill) |
| Adobado: Ebrio (English: Drunk) |
| Adobarse: Embriagarse (English: Drunk) |
| Adornado: Sobornado (English: Bribed) |
| Adorno: Soborno (English: Bribe) |
| Afanancio: Ladrón (English: Thief) |
| Afano: Robo (English: Theft) |
| Afiabrar: Matar (English: Killing) |
| Afiambrado: Asesinado (English: Murdered) |
| Afilador: Cortejante (English: Courting) |
| Afilar: Festejar (English: Party) |
| Aflojar: Delatar (English: Ratting) |
| Afrecho: Apetito sexual (English: Sexual appetite) |
| Afrechudo: Rijoso (English: Rough) |
| Africar: Entregar con fuerza (English: Delivering with force) |
| Agachada: Deslealtad, vileza (English: Disloyalty, vileness) |
| Agarrada: Disputa (English: Dispute) |
| Agayas, de: Valiente (English: Brave) |
| Agayudo: Valiente (English: Brave) |
| Agrampar: Atrapar, asir (English: To catch, to seize) |
| Agrandado: Ostentoso (English: Ostentatious) |
| Aguantiñar: Afrontar, soportar (English: To face, to endure) |
| Águila / Aguilero: Indigente (English: Indigent) |
| Ainenti: Piedritas (Juego de niños) (English: Piedritas (Child’s play)) |
| Al bardo: Salir a robar sin un plan determinado: (English: To go out and steal without a definite plan:) |
| Al pucho: De inmediato (English: Immediately) |
| Alacrán: Chismoso (English: Gossip) |
| Alacranear: Chismosear (English: Gossip) |
| Alacransar: Hablar mal (English: To talk bad) |
| Alambrada: Guitarra (English: Guitar) |
| Alca: Alcahuete (English: Tattletale) |
| Alcachofa: Alcahuete (English: Tattletale) |
| Alcagüetería: Delación (English: Whistleblower) |
| Alcancía: Cárcel (English: Jail) |
| Alcaucil: Alcahuete (English: Pimp) |
| Alce: Ocasión (English: Occasion) |
| Alfajía: Alto (English: High) |
| Alfiler: Arma blanca (English: Weapon) |
| Aliviar: Robar (English: Stealing) |
| Almanaques: Edad, años (English: Age, years) |
| Alpedología: Hablar sobre un tema sin conocimiento (English: Talking about a subject without knowledge) |
| Alpiste: Bebida alcohólica (English: Alcoholic beverage) |
| Alpistería: Bar, licorería (English: Bar, liquor store) |
| Alpistero: Ebrio (English: Drunk) |
| Altiyero: Excelente (English: Excellent) |
| Altiyo: Cabeza (English: Head) |
| Alumbrante: Fósforo (English: Phosphorus) |
| Alumbrar: Proveer dinero (English: Providing money) |
| Alzado: Rijoso (English: Rough) |
| Alzarse: Irse (English: Go) |
| Amachimbrado: Amancebado (English: Friend) |
| Amargo: Cobarde (English: Coward) |
| Amarrete: Tacaño (English: Stingy) |
| Amarretear: Mezquinar (English: Cheapskate) |
| Amarretismo: Mezquindad (English: Cheapskate) |
| Amarro: Tacaño (English: Cheapskate) |
| Amarrocador: Tacaño (English: Stingy) |
| Amarrocar: Atesorar (English: Treasure) |
| Amarroto: Amarrete (English: Mooring) |
| Amarroto: Tacaño (English: Stingy) |
| Amasijado: Asesinado / Zurrado (English: Murdered / Zurrado) |
| Amasijar: Zurrar / Matar (English: Zurrar / To kill) |
| Amasijo: Castigo, zurra (English: Punishment, spanking) |
| Ambidextro: Pederasta, activo y pasivo (English: Pedophile, active and passive) |
| Ambiguo: Afeminado (English: Effeminate) |
| Amueblada: Albergue transitorio (English: Transient shelter) |
| Amurado: Abandonado (English: Abandoned) |
| Amuro: Cárcel (English: Prison) |
| Ana-Ana: Por mitades (English: In halves) |
| Analfa: Ignorante (English: Ignorant) |
| Analfabestia: Ignorante (English: Ignorant) |
| Añapar: Atrapar (English: Catch) |
| Ancu: Como araca, voz de alarma (English: As araca, voice of alarm) |
| Andante: Peatón (English: Pedestrian) |
| Anduma: Vamos (English: Come on) |
| Angelito: Cándido (English: Candid) |
| Angelito: Herramienta para abrir cerraduras desde afuera (English: Tool to open locks from the outside) |
| Antenas: Orejas (English: Ears) |
| Antropófago: Invertido (English: Inverted) |
| Apampada: Desorientado (English: Disoriented) |
| Apañado: Encarcelado (English: Imprisoned) |
| Apaparse: Desorientarse (English: Disoriented) |
| Apedado: Ebrio (English: Drunk) |
| Apedarse: Embriagarse (English: Inebriated) |
| Apestiyado: Zurrado (English: Drunk) |
| Apiolado: Despabilado (English: Awakened) |
| Apiolar: Despabilar (English: Awaken) |
| Apiolarse: Despabilarse (English: Wake up) |
| Aplicar: Encarecer (English: Encarecer) |
| Apoliyar: Dormir, holgar (English: Sleeping, loafing) |
| Apoliyo, de: Durmiendo (English: Sleeping) |
| Apoliyo: Dormir (English: Sleep) |
| Aprontar: Hacer correr los caballos de carrera (English: Running racehorses) |
| Apronte: Movimiento preliminar, entrenamiento, preparativos (English: Preliminary movement, training, preparations) |
| Apuntador: Batidor, delator (English: Beater, whistleblower) |
| Apuntamento: Conquista amorosa (English: Conquest of love) |
| Apuntar: Delatar / Conquistar amor (English: To tell on / to conquer love) |
| Apunte, llevar el: Atender (English: Attend) |
| Apunte: Delación (English: Snitching) |
| Araca: Atención! Cuidado (English: Attention! Caution) |
| Araña: Voz de alarma, lo mismo que araca (English: Voice of alarm, the same as araca) |
| Arbolito: Levanta juego clandestino (English: Raise clandestine game) |
| Archivado: Encarcelado (English: Incarcerated) |
| Argoya: Crica (English: Crica) |
| Armarse: Progresar, enriquecer (English: To progress, to enrich) |
| Arrabal: barrio de extramuros donde alguien canta o baila un tango (English: neighborhood outside the walls where someone sings or dances a tango) |
| Arranyar: Castigar (English: Punish) |
| Arrastre: Prestigio / Predicamento / Influencia (English: Prestige / Predicament / Influence) |
| Arrayar: Arreglar (English: Fix) |
| Arrebezarse: enojarse, insoentarse (English: to get angry, to get upset) |
| Arreglo: Soborno (English: Bribe) |
| Arriba, de: Gratuitamente (English: Gratuitously) |
| Arribeño, de: Gratuitamente (English: Gratuitously) |
| Arrimado: Amancebado (English: Friendship) |
| Arroyarse: Asustarse (English: Frightened) |
| Arrugado: Bandoneón Asustado (English: Scared Bandoneon) |
| Arrugarse: Asustarse (English: Scared) |
| Arrugue: Temor (English: Fear) |
| Artículo, dar: Atender (English: Attend) |
| Asfalto: Experiencia (English: Experience) |
| Asnaf: Por mitades (English: In halves) |
| Asoleado: Chambón (English: Chambon) |
| Aspamento: Ostentación (English: Ostentation) |
| Astiya: Parte de robo (English: Part of theft) |
| Astiyado: Reparto de robo (English: Share of theft) |
| Asunto: Mujer (English: Woman) |
| Atenti: palabra que sirve para llamar la atención o advertir de algún peligro (English: A word used to call attention or warn of danger.) |
| Atorado: Atolondrado (English: Atolondrado ) |
| Atorniyar: Ahorrar mezquinando (English: To save by stinginess) |
| Atorra: Vago, holgazán (English: Lazy, idler) |
| Atorradero: Vivienda humilde del vago o soltero (English: Humble dwelling of the vagabond or bachelor) |
| Atorrancia: Vagancia (English: Vagrancy) |
| Atorranta: Ramera (English: Slut) |
| Atorrante: Sinvergüenza (English: Scoundrel) |
| Atorrantear: Vaguear (English: Loitering) |
| Atorrantismo: Vagancia (English: Vagrancy) |
| Atorrar: Dormir; vago; mujer entregada al vicio (caños de agua corriente) (English: Sleeping; bum; woman given to vice (running water pipes)) |
| Atorro: Vivienda del tipo vago o del soltero (English: Housing of the vagabond or bachelor type) |
| Atracar: Acercar, arrimar (English: To draw near, to bring near) |
| Atrasado: despistado, distraído, tonto (English: absent-minded, absent-minded, foolish ) |
| Ave Negra: Abogado (English: Lawyer) |
| Avería, de: Malhechor (English: Miscreant) |
| Avivada: Viveza / Engañifa (English: Viveza / Deceitful) |
| Avivado: despabilado, desvergonzado (English: shameless, shameless, shameless) |
| Avivar: Advertir, despabilar (English: Warn, awaken) |
| Avivarse: Despabilarse (English: Wise up) |
| Avivato: Despabilado, aprovechador (English: Wise, shameless, shameless) |
| Azotarse: Arrojarse, decidirse (English: To throw oneself, to make up one’s mind) |
| Azotea: Cabeza ; tener gente en la azotea ; facultades mentales alteradas (English: Head ; to have people on the roof ; altered mental faculties) |
| Azotetis: Somatización de origen psíquico (English: Somatization of psychic origin) |
