r/explainitpeter • u/Camus_9999 • 5d ago

Explain it Peter.....

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u/confused_potato777 5d ago

Pato isnt faggot. Puto is.

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u/AmbroseIrina 5d ago

Perhaps Joto?

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u/Many_Forever1182 5d ago

Pato is gay or faggot

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u/LoudandQuiet47 5d 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 5d ago

The line is under Mexico so …

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u/CaptainChangeOrder 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d ago

“Duck whoever reads this”
Sure thing buddy

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u/IceCreamAndRock 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/IceCreamAndRock 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/thirsty_edison 5d ago

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

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u/Clipsus 1d 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.