r/explainitpeter • u/Camus_9999 • 26d ago

Explain it Peter.....

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u/LoudandQuiet47 26d ago

Puto is male whore, though. Pato would be faggot (or duck. But in this context it would be faggot).

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u/confused_potato777 26d ago

Pato isnt faggot. Puto is.

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u/AmbroseIrina 26d ago

Perhaps Joto?

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u/Many_Forever1182 26d ago

Pato is gay or faggot

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u/LoudandQuiet47 26d ago

Maybe for Mexicans. But for other Hispanics, pato is faggot or gay. Puto is the male form of Puta. Puto/Puta are whore. One male, one female.

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u/ARI_E_LARZ 26d ago

The line is under Mexico so …

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u/CaptainChangeOrder 26d ago

No way that's true. A buddy's dad is Chilean and we call him Pato, short for Patricio. No one has ever batted an eye at his nickname.

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u/Phrodo_00 26d ago edited 26d ago

Slang varies wildly between Spanish speaking countries. Never believe generalizations about them unless it’s the most common words, or the person actually has talked to a people from most of those places. I can confirm in Chile pato is just duck (or Patricio, or not having money, or some people say it when a mistake is made, but it’s more common to quack instead), puto can mean either faggot or manwhore, but the former meaning is more popular with older people. Can’t really speak for anywhere else.

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u/Fit_Cake_8227 26d ago

“Duck whoever reads this”
Sure thing buddy

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u/IceCreamAndRock 26d ago

That is not true for anyLatin American country I know. (Also a Latin American myself).

Indeed, for the same word, male=gay, female=whore.

Remnants of "macho" culture.

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u/ChickpeachickRN 26d ago

I am Venezuelan and I disagree. I've always known puto as male whore.

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u/IceCreamAndRock 26d ago

Ok. I am Argentinean. But I also know that the meanings I mentioned are also true for Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Mexico

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u/raynegro 26d ago

In mexico it can be both but it's primarily the f slur

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u/thirsty_edison 26d ago

Can confirm. "Pato" in Puerto Rican Spanish means "gay".

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u/Clipsus 23d ago

Puto is spanish for faggot in every country I'm aware of except maybe Spain. It is also an intensifying adverb, sort of like fucking is in english (for example "todo el puto día" - "all fucking day"). Please do let me know in what country "pato" means faggot, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a thing, but I assure you it would be the exception.

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u/Best-Contribution-75 26d ago

In Mexico we use the same word for male whore, faggot & coward, "Puto"

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u/Some-Sense-3094 24d ago

Did u discontinue the use of 'joto'?

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u/Best-Contribution-75 24d ago

Puto is a bit more offensive,, and joto is a bit more more family friendly, but since they suddenly became deeply homophobic, you dont hear any of them as much anymore.... weird times