chamacada

English translation: kids

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Spanish term or phrase:chamacada
English translation:kids
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

13:05 Mar 11, 2021
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: chamacada
This is a text by a now-deceased Mexican artist:

Vemos, miramos, contemplamos y meditamos a partir de las imágenes. Estas surgen y nos llegan desde las fuentes más primigenias hasta las más industrializadas, desde el trazo de un lápiz (relleno, al cabo, de grafito) sobre una hoja de papel, hasta los alardes de la digitalización cinematográfica (Matrix), pasando por televisión en todas sus versiones, microvideo médico, fotos satelitales y su retransmisión instantánea, rayos X y tomografías y sonido visualizado, hasta los videocelulares que está comprando al mayoreo la chamacada más próspera

I wonder if it is Mexican slang. Thanks
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 20:27
kids
Explanation:
Diccionario de mexicanismos 2
www.briansteel.net › articsylibros
chamacada nf fam =chiquillería; chicos // ... que venden en las discotecas a la chamacada ... (F.Victoria Zepeda, 20) kids (fam). chamaco, -a nmf fam (NAH) ...

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We see, we look, we contemplate and we meditate from the images. These arise and reach us from the most primitive sources to the most industrialized, from the stroke of a pencil (filled, after all, with graphite) on a sheet of paper, to the boasts of cinematographic digitization (Matrix), passing through television In all its versions, medical micro-video, satellite photos and their instant broadcast, X-rays and CT scans and visualized sound, even the video cell phones that the most well-to-do kids are buying wholesale.

Well-to-do | Definition of Well-to-do by Merriam-Webster
www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › well-to-do
Kids Definition of well-to-do : having plenty of money and possessions He comes from a well-to-do family.
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andres-larsen
Venezuela
Local time: 19:27
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1 +6kids
andres-larsen
4teenagers
Tigranuhi Khachatryan
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Taña Dalglish

  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +6
kids


Explanation:
Diccionario de mexicanismos 2
www.briansteel.net › articsylibros
chamacada nf fam =chiquillería; chicos // ... que venden en las discotecas a la chamacada ... (F.Victoria Zepeda, 20) kids (fam). chamaco, -a nmf fam (NAH) ...

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Note added at 9 mins (2021-03-11 13:15:04 GMT)
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We see, we look, we contemplate and we meditate from the images. These arise and reach us from the most primitive sources to the most industrialized, from the stroke of a pencil (filled, after all, with graphite) on a sheet of paper, to the boasts of cinematographic digitization (Matrix), passing through television In all its versions, medical micro-video, satellite photos and their instant broadcast, X-rays and CT scans and visualized sound, even the video cell phones that the most well-to-do kids are buying wholesale.

Well-to-do | Definition of Well-to-do by Merriam-Webster
www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › well-to-do
Kids Definition of well-to-do : having plenty of money and possessions He comes from a well-to-do family.

andres-larsen
Venezuela
Local time: 19:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
thanks

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agree  Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
teenagers


Explanation:
En México es muy común que nos refiramos a los niños con apodos, según la región.

Chamaco es un vocablo náhuatl que proviene de “chamahua” que es un elote. A los niños se les decía chamahuas porque eran como elotes por lo tierno, o sea jovencitos.

https://www.imer.mx/tropicalisima/chilpayates-chamacos-y-hua...

Chamacada

Referencia a todos los jóvenes, Chaviza, juventud


Esta chamacada ya no respeta a sus mayores

https://diccionariomexico.com/significado/Chamacada

Los chamacos de 13 y 15 años ni siquiera tienen el cerebro desarrollado todavía, aunque biológicamente sean capaces de reproducirse. Cuando mucho, ven a la bebita como una muñequita.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/padre-a-los-13-años.8...

Tigranuhi Khachatryan
Armenia
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of: Native in ArmenianArmenian
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Reference information:
Yes! Kids/group of kids.

The Red-Hot Book of Spanish Slang 5 000 Expressions to ...https://www.scribd.com › document › The-Red-Hot-Book...
28 Apr 2018 — la chamacada group of young people Mex Había una chamacada en la calle. There was a group of kids in the street. el/la chamaco(-a) young ...


Diccionario de mexicanismos 2 - Brian Steel Spanish ...http://www.briansteel.net › articsylibros
http://www.briansteel.net/articsylibros/bdemsamp2c.htm
(M.Nelligan, 10) contemporary slang ... (DMex, I:279) contemporary slang ... chamacada nf fam =chiquillería; chicos // ... que venden en las discotecas a la ...
chamacada nf fam =chiquillería; chicos // ... que venden en las discotecas a la chamacada ... (F.Victoria Zepeda, 20) kids (fam)



English-Spanish translation :: kids :: Dictionaryhttps://www.dictionary-englishspanish.com › ...
https://www.dictionary-englishspanish.com/en/dictionary-engl...
kids = la chiquillería. The English to Spanish online dictionary. Check spelling and ... 4. joke, jest; tease; deceive, delude; behave foolishly (Slang). rate, 5. orig.
We have found the following spanish words and translations for "kids":
English Spanish
1. kids la chiquillería

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24

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