Janguiar

[Ke rico]

I wonder do many people use this word who are not Puerto Rican? My family uses it a lot. It means "to hang out" it is callejero it has no dictionary definition. Many people I speak to who are of Cuba or other places don't understand that word when I use it. "Oyese vamos a janguiar esta noche?" Then they get confused and ask me what I mean.

My question is if anyone else has heard this word? I have only heard my family and some of my other Puerto Rican friends use it..is it a frequent word for other people or is it just with my family and some of my friends that know it?

 

[Hidrocálida]

I'm from Mexico and I never have heard this word.
saludos

 

[Ke rico]

Maybe it is only well known of Puerto Ricans?

 

[Oscar Cáceres Burgos]

Definitely I have never heard it...
however, Puerto ricans use to "latinize" some english terms....
It is not a surprise for me...

"Presea, dale, presea"

Presear = presionar

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[Ke rico]

Oh yes, I have seen latinizing of words Even for me sometimes it is hard to understand what my grandfather says. He uses many words that are "spanglish". I'm kinda disappointed. Now I'm so used to janguiar, and I do not think that people understand this word

 

[fenixpollo]

It sounds like a Spanglish version of the English phrase, to hang out. I've never heard it used in Mexico or in the southwestern US.

 

[parhuzam]

I have never heard this term.... but there are many examples of the same transition of English into Spanish... such as "parquear" (from park) which seems to have gained wide acceptance as a sample of a developing living language.

 

[Ke rico]

Oh... then I must ask which word do you use that is in-formal to say hang out? We just use janguiar.

 

[pecosita]

100% Spanglish...

Do you need an equivalent in English or Spanish?

 

[parhuzam]

We use "blowing the breeze, watching paint dry, vegetating, ruminating , chewing the fat, passing the time, idlying...among others." Hang out is already slang to mean reside, live..

I just haven't found the need to use "janguiar."

 

[Ke rico]

Oh. We use janguiar all the time. i guess it's confusing to other people. Heh. Thanks for your help everyone. Oh by the way pecosita, I was looking for a Spanish equivalent. Thanks

 

[D.J. deSaxofón]

¿Quizás la palabra ‘relajarse’ se puede usar?

Espero que te ayude.

 

[comrade]

Junot Diaz (who is Dominican American) uses it in his stories -- he has characters from the DR using it when they talk to each other.

 

[lauranazario]

Although the thread was opened in 2008, I can confirm that the verbs janguiar (or janguear) are still used to this day in Puerto Rico to mean "to hang out", to get together and chill out, to go somewhere and have a good time.

• A Marta y a mí nos gusta janguear en la Placita (de Santurce).​

We even have a noun: el jangueo (the act of hanging out)

• Esta noche me voy de jangueo con mis amigos​

Saludos,
LN

 

[Nico44]

Although the thread was opened in 2008, I can confirm that the verbs janguiar (or janguear) are still used to this day in Puerto Rico to mean "to hang out", to get together and chill out, to go somewhere and have a good time.

• A Marta y a mí nos gusta janguear en la Placita (de Santurce).​

We even have a noun: el jangueo (the act of hanging out)

• Esta noche me voy de jangueo con mis amigos​

Saludos,
LN

Si tienes razón también en DR sigue usándose esta palabra