podjo
English translation: old friend/partner
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|  Selected response from: David Brown Spain Local time: 04:57 | |||
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| 5 +1 | old friend/partner |
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| 5 | pollo: person taken across the border illegal |
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1 hr confidence: 
pollo: person taken across the border illegal Explanation: pollo: undocumented or illegal alien pollero: the person who takes the illegal alien across the border it's not PODJO it's POLLO: first meaning, a chicken...you must be hearing PODJO which is more of an Argentine or Uruguayan way of pronouncing words in Spanish with LL; ie calle, street, pronounced as cadje...get it? cheers -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 20 mins (2004-04-06 01:22:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- illegaly -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 21 mins (2004-04-06 01:23:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- the correct transcription would be: pojo...without the D, in my humble opinion.....but some may go for podjo as a transcription -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 32 mins (2004-04-06 01:34:07 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- pollero would be in Spanish the person who tends the chickens...here, the illegal crosser.... it\'s all over google.....pollo + illegal alien...though one guy says it means chicken HERDER....ha...fat lot he knows about farming...who ever heard of a chicken herder...must be big chickens, ducky...see if you can find that pollo+ illegal alien + chicken herder -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 42 mins (2004-04-06 01:44:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Note to Sol: It\'s probably used in one or two novels by the same author. What the heck else could it be?? Nothing else makes sense. And it is not Navajo. Navajo does not have DJ |
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6 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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