Mexican

The season is primavera. In Mexico a metal spring, like the one in a mattress, is a resorte, and a spring of water is a manantial.

In Mexico homework is tarea, and students say hacer la tarea for doing it. The word deberes is used in Spain and is not what Mexican kids say.

The sport of swimming is natación. To talk about the activity, people say nadar, as in me gusta nadar.

A hedgehog is an erizo in Mexico. The same word is used for the sea urchin when it is erizo de mar.

In Mexico to hitchhike is pedir aventón. A ride is called un aventón, and a driver who gives one da aventón. Hacer autostop is the form used in Spain.

In Mexico a refrigerator is a refrigerador, and in casual talk it is simply the refri. Both are used at home and in shops.

To behave in Mexican Spanish is usually portarse bien, literally “to carry oneself well”. The more formal verb is comportarse.

In Mexico gossip is chisme. The verb is chismear, and a person who loves gossip is chismoso for a man or chismosa for a woman.

In Mexico you say hacer cosquillas for “to tickle”. The ticklish feeling is cosquillas, so tengo cosquillas means “I am ticklish”.

In Mexico “lucky” is suertudo in casual speech and afortunado in neutral speech. The most common way to say it is tener suerte, “to have luck”.