Thread: Meaning of 'marica' and others

Hi.
Have run across a few words in Spanish while playing Yahoo pool.
What do these mean:

1) MARICA as used in 'juega marica 700 games'

2) Have seen 'dale' a few times. Meaning?

Thx.
#2 could be a cuss word, just tell me and sorry if so.
Bob

Originally Posted by Bob6831

Hi.
Have run across a few words in Spanish while playing Yahoo pool.
What do these mean:

1) MARICA as used in 'juega marica 700 games'

marica in spain is derrogative for gay

Come on , *****, play 700 games.

2) Have seen 'dale' a few times. Meaning? dale means: come on, hit /shoot (??) the ball)

Thx.
#2 could be a cuss word, just tell me and sorry if so.
Bob

I hope this helps.

thx........
are you saying that dale means 'come on'?
is there a verb there I can look up?

Originally Posted by Bob6831

thx........
are you saying that dale means 'come on'?
is there a verb there I can look up?

dale: come on, let's go, get going, hurry up...

I could also mean: give it to him/her

Dale is an expression. The verb is dar, which really means "give".

This thread will make things very clear.

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=74774