Mexican

In Mexico a donut is dona, plural donas. It is feminine, so Mexicans say una dona de chocolate. Order by saying quiero una dona or me da dos donas.

A bird in Mexico is a pájaro in everyday talk. Ave is the broader and more formal word, and a small bird is a pajarito.

In Mexico a water tap is a llave, or more fully llave del agua. The same word llave also means a key.

In Mexican Spanish “leave me alone” is Déjame en paz. To say you want to be alone, a man says Déjame solo and a woman says Déjame sola.

Mexicans say menso (a mild, casual word), tonto or idiota for a moron. Pendejo is very common in Mexico, but it is vulgar and offensive.

In Mexico chile is the word for a hot pepper, and it is spelled with one l. The country of Chile is written Chile too, with a capital letter.

The country is China in Mexican Spanish, as in all Spanish. A Chinese man is chino, a Chinese woman is china, and the language is chino.

A glove is a guante in Mexican Spanish. Because gloves come in pairs, you usually hear the plural guantes.

Monkey is mono in standard Spanish, and Mexicans very often say chango as well. A female is mona or changa.

The word is capital in Mexican Spanish, both for a main city and for money.