güey

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

wey

Etymology edit

Nonstandard pronunciation-spelling variant of buey (literally “ox”) (see that entry for more); this form thus represents a deshifting of /bw/ back to /ɡw/. Compare nonstandard güeno from bueno (“good”), agüelo from abuelo (“grandfather”), güelvo from vuelvo (“to return”), where /bwe/ becomes /ɡwe/. A similar phenomenon occurs in the dialectal pronunciation of Lithuanian buvai as /ɡwuei/.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation) /ˈɡwei/ [ˈɡwei̯]
- Syllabification: güey
IPA^(key): (colloquial pronunciation) /ˈw̝ei/ [ˈw̝ei̯]
Rhymes: -ei

Noun edit

güey m (plural güeyes)

(Mexico, colloquial slang) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
Synonyms: cabrón, tonto
(Mexico, colloquial slang) dude, guy, buddy
Synonyms: (Mexico) carnal, (Mexico) cuate, (Spain) tío, (Spain) tía; see also Thesaurus:tío
(Rioplatense, Paraguay) Pronunciation spelling of buey.