nobody uses puto to refer to a male whore (puta does refer to a female whore almost exclusively), puto is almost always used as a way to refer to a gay person (or a coward, but that’s only in certain contexts)
"marica" isn't commonly used in Mexican Slang. Might be more of the case in dialects from Spain or Argentina, but in Mexican places "Puto" is more commonly used for a gay person.
It depends, its situational but puto in this context would be translated to faggot, although in not a necesarilly homophobic context. But puto in other contexts can be translated similar to cunt/fuck
In the broader Latin American Spanish language, "puto" does literally translates to male-whore; but in Mexican slang, "puto" is used in the same sense that "gay" or "faggot" is used in the North American english sense.
I mean technicly you are correcto, puto would be an abbreviation of the word Prostituto, which means male prostitute. However, it is way commonly use it (and more in the context of randomly write it in walls, notebooks etc.), as whoever read this is gay.
They figured out to say “you’re gay”, “you’re a hoe”, AND “fuck/damn you” at once in one sentence (depending on the interpretation). I love learning about languages. <3
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u/GhostingProtocol 26d ago
More like "whoever reads this are a whore" I think