Definitions

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  • noun US, vulgar, Spanglish something bad or a misdoing
  • noun US, vulgar, Spanglish despised or whorish woman. Common street example: 'Donde está la chingadera?' ("Where is your whorish girlfriend?")

Etymologies

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Mexican Spanish

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Examples

  • I did this one with Hayden, by now the battery operated chingadera was deaddeaddead, so it was by hand with those amazing little blades!

    2009 November « Bodhicitta 2009

  • I did this one with Hayden, by now the battery operated chingadera was deaddeaddead, so it was by hand with those amazing little blades!

    Halloween or Bust « Bodhicitta 2009

  • While I'm glad that hipster chicks have gotten into sewing, crafting, and that whole Etsy chingadera over the past couple of years, it's old sombrero for Mexican mujeres, all whom know who to sew, stitch, weave and do miracles with cloth, strings, and needles.

    Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mujer Edition Gustavo Arellano 2011

  • Webb's a chingadera REPUBLICAN, fer chrissake, in case you'd forgotten.

    Jim Webb's Veep Tour Comes To Manhattan 2009

  • They spend a half hour drinking and joking—the Spanish they use for my sake has, on their own time, speeded up to an unintelligible tumult of which I pick up mainly cabrón and chingadera, the oaths that lace so much male conversation.

    Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

  • They spend a half hour drinking and joking—the Spanish they use for my sake has, on their own time, speeded up to an unintelligible tumult of which I pick up mainly cabrón and chingadera, the oaths that lace so much male conversation.

    Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

  • And to the both of ustedes and everyone else: this is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not Ask a Hispanic, Latino, Chili Belly or whatever other chingadera people confuse Mexicans as - ask accordingly!

    Houston Press | Complete Issue 2010

  • And to the both of ustedes and everyone else: this is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not Ask a Hispanic, Latino, Chili Belly or whatever other chingadera people confuse Mexicans as - ask accordingly!

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2010

  • And to the both of ustedes and everyone else: this is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not Ask a Hispanic, Latino, Chili Belly or whatever other chingadera people confuse Mexicans as - ask accordingly!

    Houston Press | Complete Issue 2010

  • And to the both of ustedes and everyone else: this is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not Ask a Hispanic, Latino, Chili Belly or whatever other chingadera people confuse Mexicans as - ask accordingly!

    Houston Press | Complete Issue 2010

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