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kittiwakeFound in "Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter" - jitney, jalousies & huachafo.
jit·ney
n. pl. jit·neys
1. A small motor vehicle, such as a bus or van, that transports passengers on a route for a small fare.
2. Archaic A nickel.
[ Origin unknown.]
The first definition fits.
jalousie
n.
A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light.
[French, from jalousie, jealousy, from Old French gelosie, from gelos, jealous ; see jealous.]
Huachafo was not in the main Spanish dictionary on yourdictionary.com, so I tried a world Spanish dictionary in the specialist dictionaries section and found:
huachafo, fa
adj. amer. Cursi.
I assumed that amer. meant it was Latin American Spanish, and that cursi was the meaning, so I looked up cursi in a Spanish-English dictionary and the second definition fits the context.
1. cursi [s.m.] affected or superficial person [n.], dude [n.]
2. cursi [adj.] shoddy [adj.], vulgar [adj.]
jit·ney
n. pl. jit·neys
1. A small motor vehicle, such as a bus or van, that transports passengers on a route for a small fare.
2. Archaic A nickel.
[ Origin unknown.]
The first definition fits.
jalousie
n.
A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light.
[French, from jalousie, jealousy, from Old French gelosie, from gelos, jealous ; see jealous.]
Huachafo was not in the main Spanish dictionary on yourdictionary.com, so I tried a world Spanish dictionary in the specialist dictionaries section and found:
huachafo, fa
adj. amer. Cursi.
I assumed that amer. meant it was Latin American Spanish, and that cursi was the meaning, so I looked up cursi in a Spanish-English dictionary and the second definition fits the context.
1. cursi [s.m.] affected or superficial person [n.], dude [n.]
2. cursi [adj.] shoddy [adj.], vulgar [adj.]
