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coño

interjectionVulgar

A Peninsular Spanish slang term. Browse all Spanish slang.

What it means

  1. Damn it; for heaven's sake. Used as a general exclamation and as an intensifier inside questions: ¿qué coño haces?

Examples with translations

  • ¡Coño, qué susto me has dado!

    Bloody hell, you gave me a fright!

  • ¿Dónde coño he dejado las llaves?

    Where the hell did I leave my keys?

Where it comes from

Anatomically obscene in origin and far more strongly taboo in Latin America than in Spain, where it functions mostly as punctuation. This gap causes real offence in both directions.