Dominican Idioms and Popular Expressions


saltapatrá

Uncultured, person without any value, a "nobody".

san

An informal savings method by which several people alternate to receive the total amount of the fixed contributions that is made by each person in the group at a predetermined time intervals.

sangrú

Unpleasant person, not nice, mean, nasty.

sanki-panki

Man who is usually found in the coastal zones and who lives on the relations he establishes with foreigners.

sica

excrement, feces.

suape

Tool used to clean floors. Mop. Also, it is said that someone has a "suape" after he/she has drank too much.

suapear/suapiar

Trapear.

"suapiar o trapiar el piso alguien"

To mop or to wipe.