CACHACO, what is this??

speedmaniaco says on Jan 11, 2006, 12:58:

Cachaco Hey ColombianoNY the meaning of the word cachaco is very simple: it is the way locals describe people from Bogotá Region! they are called CACHACOS. Here every region has its own "Nicknames" for people from different regions. Below theres a list with examples:

1.People from Caribbean Area: COSTEÑOS
2.People from Santanderes Area: BUMANGUESES
3.People from Valle del Cauca (including CALI): Vallunos

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Lucia Rojas says on Jan 11, 2006, 13:16:

Even more people from the Atlantic coast: costeños, corronchos
people from Medellin and Caldas, Risaralda and Quindio: paisas
people from Bogota: cachacos (nick given in the coast) or Rolos
people from Cali and Valle: Caleños, Vallunos
People from Huila: Opitas
People from any part of the plains: llaneros
I bet theres more, but I cant think of any now

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Colombiche says on Jan 11, 2006, 13:50:

Also Paisas (people from Medellin and the coffee region) use the word cachaco to mean "elegantly dressed". It could extend to mean anything nice.

For example:

Que zapatos tan cachacos -- What nice / elegant shoes!
Que casa tan cachaca -- What a nice house.

We even took it to the level of a verb:

Se va a ENCACHACAR? -- Are you dressing up?
Esos zapatos son para CACHAQUEAR -- Those shoes are for dressing up!
ENCHAQUESE, vamos para misa -- Dress up, we are going to church.

More ways of squeezing meaning out of the word..
Caramba, QUE CACHACURA... para donde va? -- Damn, what elegance, where are you going?

No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy)

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elmodefoque says on Jan 11, 2006, 14:12:

CACHACO! for costenos or north coast colombians, a cachaco is any modefoque south of Monteria. A person from bogota, is a cachaco! from cali, a cachaco! from medellin, a cachaco! and so on. for most corronchos also known as costenos, the most popular term is CACHACO HIJUEPUTA!!!
i ofcourse never use that term cuz it will make my very young wife una cachaca hijueputa and if i call her that , she'll cut my VERY OLD hairy balls off.

any colombianita willing to date me, IS UP TO NO GOOD

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elmodefoque says on Jan 11, 2006, 14:51:

I need to clarify one thing, for costenos, “cachaco� is not a negative term, neither is hijueputa. Ok, thought the two most popular terms are “cachaco hijupueta� and may I add “gringo hijupta� it is never use in malice, or a nasty way. I’ve never felt insulted when greeted by broke ass corronchos “nojoda gringo hijuepata� yes, for some in Colombia I’m a freaking gringo, I tell them, “eche marica, I wish I was a “gringo hijueputa� imagine all middle class Colombianas I’ll be nailing, maybe as many as morphus.

any colombianita willing to date me, IS UP TO NO GOOD

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COLDK says on Jan 12, 2006, 11:11:

cachaco = no costeño As Elmo has said, no offensive meaning with the term cachaco, no matter where they come from, if not from the coast, then Cachaco.

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jediknight says on Jan 15, 2006, 13:08:

cachaco is anyone from the interior of colombia, not from the coast. since the costenos cannot dress up because of the extreme heat and humidity, cachacos from everywhere else are used to wearing t shirts (not wife beaters),suits and tie to work, jackets to go out etc so they appear to dress more eleganty.

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jalf12 says on Jan 15, 2006, 18:08:

EL Costeño y LA Cachaca That's me and my wife; the reverse of the Soapopera. It is one of the few I watched some of with my wife. The one about the whores was funny at first but they all make me sick after the first 10 minutes.

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Gomezman5 says on Jan 15, 2006, 21:31:

Elmo is right on target Originally, a Cachaco was term that would be used by costenos (still no enya) to refer to Bogotanos, but it always had a negative conotation. It was a fairly popular belief by Bogotanos that they were Colombia's finest, and that all others were inferion. Understand me, this belief, needless to say was one held by Bogotanos....not all of Colombia. But while Bogotanos thought they were superior and everyone eles was inferior to them, they also believed that coastal people or costenos were the most inferior of all. This irritated the costenos resulting in them refering to Bogotanos as Cachacos. Cachaco ALWAYS had a negative conotation, unlike the word Rolos, which never had a negative conotation. You will hear Bogotanos refer to themselves as Rolo, but never Cachaco.

Over time, as the general feeling of the Colombian people from the interior saw costenos as inferior, and as a result, all of the costenos began to refer to anyone that was not costeno as Cachaco.

Mi abuelito siempre me dijo que todas las costenas (sus novias) son como asi:

bravas, fuerte, ladrones, terkas, mentirosas, and on and on. Typical sterotype that people from the interior of Colombia have about coastal peoples.

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tomtom33 says on Jan 16, 2006, 04:46:

G5 Hold the "Alt" key down while you enter 164. Then you get ñ. For 168, you get ¿. There are many others including accents. It's all there. You just have to know where to look.

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Jan 16, 2006, 04:58:

I was born on the coast but lived in Bogota since the age of 5, but because of my parents accent, at school my friends used to call me La costeña and when I used to go to the coast for holidays to visit my Grandparents, people there called me la Cachaca. :(

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juanalejo says on Jan 16, 2006, 06:44:

Cachaco Never heard of cachaco as a negative connotation, unless you say cachaco hp. On the other hand saying something is cachaquisimo, is actually saying is very nice and of very nice taste.

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Jan 16, 2006, 07:38:

it never bothered me to be called cachaca or costeña unless they added the HP of course :(

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elmodefoque says on Jan 17, 2006, 03:33:

Kat, I just can’t imagine anyone calling such a cute thing like you “cachaca hijueputa!�
Sometime when I’m pissed off at my very young wife from Medellin, I’m tempted to call her “cachaca hijuepta!� Not too long ago when she busted a lamp over my head, I did think about saying out loud “cachaca hijueputa� but kept my mouth shut and instead ran to the bathroom and locked myself inside.
You guys gotta remember that some words that are offensive in cachacolandia are not offensive in la Costa. For us he man type calling each other “marica� or “hijueputa� is not offensive at all, BUT you GOTTA know the person. Is not like you gonna call a perfect stranger in a shit hole neighborhood, “mira marica hijueputa ven aca� good chance you get a machete whack across the side of your head. We call anyone that’s small in stature and white looking “cachaco�, and they could be born and raised en la Costa. We call my brother “cachaco hijueputa� cuz he’s only 5’7 and very light, yet that modefoque has never been south of Cartagena.

any colombianita willing to date me, IS UP TO NO GOOD

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Costeño Esp. en Telecomunicaciones says on Feb 1, 2008, 18:21:

Let me enlight some of u. The word corroncho (redneck) does NOT mean costeño NEITHER is a sinonim or anything to do with. It just happens that the most brilliant colombians ARE NOT generally cachacos then, as an act of stupid fanatic regionalism, they accuse everyone else not-born in cachacolandia to be corroncho bruto.

It is easy to confirm that costeños and paisas represent in many cases the best of this country. Just google for triunfos costeños o paisas if any doubts.

Spanish dude... you gotta learn spanish.

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Monpirri says on Feb 2, 2008, 21:19:

I would not say that corroncho means redneck because reckneck also has a different connotation, at least that’s how I know it.

"Redneck, a slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative, racist, and a religious fundamentalist (see fundamentalism). This term is generally considered offensive. It originated in reference to agricultural workers, alluding to how the back of a person's neck will be burned by the sun if he works long hours in the fields."
I would say hillbilly has a much closer meaning to corroncho.
Corroncho means, in my experience with the term, someone who cannot dress properly. Example, he wears white corroncho sneakers, bright alarming red shorts and a wrinkled tuxedo jacket and he dares to go, uninvited, to a wedding.
Also, a corroncho does not follow any social protocols and when he chats, he makes up kind of funny legends and shares his repertoua (sp?? )of jokes which only he understands sometimes. His language is his or her own unique signature.

Here are some better examples of the word corroncho:

“Corroncho
Colombia
En el interior del país: persona originaria de la costa caribe. Para la gente de la costa: - bizcocho poco elaborado- gente un poco mundana como los campesinos o los del interior del pais (cachaco)Ejemplo : "ese tipo es tan corroncho que no sabe vestirse"Sinónimos : Ordinario Enviado por : Jose Gonzalez (Santa Marta, Colombia)

Sustantivo o adjetivo que denota una persona u cosa extravagante, y que en su hablar desfigura el lenguaje para crear pintorescas expresiones.Ejemplo : "Esa camisa está muy corroncha.El amigo que trajiste a la fiesta es todo un corroncho."Sinónimos : Mañé Iguazo ñarria Chirrete Ordinario Extravagante
Enviado por : Daniel Romero‿
http://www.asihablamos.com/word/palabra/Corroncho.php

But the term corroncho is not used only to address costeños because there are hundreds of corronchos from other places in Colombia. As this phrase stipulates by taking us to another region, "No hay persona más corroncha que un cachaco corroncho."
http://www.soho.com.co/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?idArt=6503

And it looks like nowadays the word corroncho is synonymous with the entertainment world:
Corroncho Games
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