Cornbread is pan de maíz in Spanish. In Mexico the closest traditional sweet dish is pan de elote, a moist corn cake made with fresh corn.
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In Mexico the opossum is a tlacuache, a word from Nahuatl. Elsewhere in Spanish it is a zarigüeya.
Mexicans say té for “tea”. Note the accent mark, which separates it from te, the pronoun meaning “you” or “yourself”.
In Mexico thin noodles are fideos, and they appear in the classic sopa de fideos. Long pasta strands are tallarines and the general word is pasta.
The standard word is cobarde, used for a man or a woman. In casual Mexican speech you call a scared person gallina, literally “hen”.
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In Mexican Spanish “jealous” is celoso for a man and celosa for a woman. It is the normal word in Mexico, with no special local version.
The common Mexican word for a vegetable is verdura. Hortaliza is more formal and appears in writing about farming.
In Mexico “to jump” is brincar in everyday speech and saltar in more neutral language. Both are understood everywhere.
The word for son is hijo. In Mexico parents and grandparents often say mijo, a short form of mi hijo, as a warm way to address a boy or a grown son.