pandejo

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English

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Etymology

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Likely borrowed from Spanish pandejo (see below), or formed in English from pandemic and Spanish pendejo (contemptible person). Attested from 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pandejo (plural pandejos)

  1. (derogatory, neologism) One who is foolishly reckless around COVID-19.
    Synonym: covidiot
    • 2020 December 3, Gustavo Arellano, “Don’t be a ‘pandejo.’ Take the pandemic seriously”, in Los Angeles Times[1]:
      It’ll happen until we, like these three people bravely did during their reckonings with the dreaded disease, begin to truly call out pandejo behavior.
    • 2021 August 4, Gustavo Arellano, “At my wife's Santa Ana market, the masks have never come off”, in The Los Angeles Times[2]:
      This is infamously "pandejo" central — the home of pandemic pendejos, or blockheads.

Spanish

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This Spanish term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Etymology

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Blend of pandemia (pandemic) +‎ pendejo (stupid person; contemptible person). Attested from 2020.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /panˈdexo/ [pãn̪ˈd̪e.xo]
  • Rhymes: -exo
  • Syllabification: pan‧de‧jo

Noun

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pandejo m (plural pandejos, feminine pandeja, feminine plural pandejas)

  1. (derogatory) one who is foolishly reckless around COVID-19
    Synonym: covidiota

References

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  • 2020 December 4, Gustavo Arellano, “No sea ‘pandejo’, tómese en serio la pandemia”, in Los Angeles Times[3]:
    ¿Nunca oyó hablar del término? Se acuñó recientemente; una palabra compuesta de “pandemia” y “pendejo”, el término que usan los mexicanos para referirse a un tonto. Pandejo es un vocablo poco amable — pero tristemente preciso — para describir a los “covidiotas” latinos que se burlan con orgullo de los protocolos para combatir el coronavirus.
    Never heard the word? It’s newly minted; a word composed of “pandemic” and “pendejo”, a term Mexicans use to refer to fools. Pandejo is not a very nice word – but sadly accurate – to describe Latino “covidiots” who proudly mock the protocols meant to combat the coronavirus.