bolero

    • She means you are a bluffer, a deceiver! :D
    Actually it's Spanish:
    bola "1) ball,sphere; 2) lie, hoax"
    > bolero "liar, etc."
     
    Qcumber said:
    If she calls you other nice names like this one, please report them here. I am interested in these terms.
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    Wait, so had you heard this term before or did you look it up? I know it's originally Spanish, but it appears to be part of Tagalog at this point as well. By the way, she says this when I say nice things to her that she doesn't believe. Anyway, I'll let you know if she uses any others.
     
    Nate in California said:
    Wait, so had you heard this term before or did you look it up?
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    Yes it's commonly used in colloquial Tagalog. I heard it a couple of times. It's not a rare word.
    Besides it is entered (it would) in:
    ZORC, David (1991)
    Tagalog slang dictionary
    ISBN: 0-931745-56-X
     
    Nate in California said:
    If a woman calls me a bolero, is she calling me a kiss-ass, a liar, a smooth talker? What exactly does this word mean?

    Thanks!
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    yes she is hehehe :D she's calling you a fabricator or as qcumber mentioned a deceiver.

    bolero can also be mambobola
    it literally means a baller or a person playing a ball.

    so if someone calls you a bolero or mambobolathey are like saying you're playing their heads. good job man :D
     
    Hello
    "Bolero" comes from the expression "decir/contar una bola" = to lie
    Bolero/a = person that tells a lie

    You can also use "trolero", that comes from "contar una trola"

    Don´t waste your time thinking whether she´s right or not: women are always right ¡ (just joking)
     
    By sheer coincidence Span. > Tag. bola "lie, etc." ressembles Tag. búlà ['bu:la?] "fib, untruth", so much so that I'm pretty sure many Tagalogs confuse them.
    It must be the same with derivatives. For instance is mambobola
    1) mambobóla [mambo'bo:la] > mambu'bu:la]
    or
    2) mambubúlà [mambu'bu:la?]
    ?
     
    Qcumber said:
    By sheer coincidence Span. > Tag. bola "lie, etc." ressembles Tag. búlà ['bu:la?] "fib, untruth", so much so that I'm pretty sure many Tagalogs confuse them.
    It must be the same with derivatives. For instance is mambobola
    1) mambobóla [mambo'bo:la] > mambu'bu:la]
    or
    2) mambubúlà [mambu'bu:la?]
    ?
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    It's mambobola. Q, bula in tagalog means bubble/s
    Yes, I think it's just a coincidence, bolero could also be "vest"
    bola = ball

    It's like saying:
    Binobola mo lang ako. = Pinapaikot mo lang ang ulo ko.
     
    Qcumber said:
    Interesting. I suppose trolero is only used in Spanish, not in Tagalog, because it's not in my Tagalog dictionaries.
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    Correct, I've never heard of it spoken in tagalog. The biggest difference of Filipino and Tagalog: Filipino is the Philippine national language, it's a combination of formal tagalog and spanish derived words. Tagalog on the other hand, used by the Tagalogs is just tagalog.

    example:

    Filipino:
    Paupuin mo ang bisita sa silya.

    Tagalog:
    Paupuin mo ang panauhin sa salung-puwit (upuan).

    Translation:
    Let the visitor sit on a chair.
     
    Camote said:
    Paupuin mo ang panauhin sa salung-puwit (upuan). Let the visitor sit on a chair.
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    :D :eek: Salung-puwít / salumpuwít doesn't exist in Tagalog. Its case is well-known. It was coined by a anti-Tagalog pro-English Filipino politician to mock his own native language. Shame on him. He then passed it as a neologism created by the Institute of the National Language, and had so much success with it that the Institute was ridiculed into silence, and eventually desestablished by Mrs. Aquino. I found the whole story in a book about Modern Tagalog. The correct Tagálog term is upúan "seat".
     
    Qcumber said:
    :D :eek: Salung-puwít / salumpuwít doesn't exist in Tagalog. Its case is well-known. It was coined by a anti-Tagalog pro-English Filipino politician to mock his own native language. Shame on him. He then passed it as a neologism created by the Institute of the National Language, and had so much success with it that the Institute was ridiculed into silence, and eventually desestablished by Mrs. Aquino. I found the whole story in a book about Modern Tagalog. The correct Tagálog term is upúan "seat".
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    :D You got me there, me and my friends make fun of it all the time, adding the salung-suso to replace the english word for a lady's under garment.
     
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