paqui

paqui

1. (intransitive) to be happy.

• pa̱qui (Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan)

• IPA^(key): /paːki/

paqui

1. (intransitive) To be happy.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 14v:

     Alegrarſe. ni,papaqui. ni,paqui. ni,ahauia. n,auia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎, 2nd electronic ed., Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, archived from the original on 2007-02-05, pages 108, 213

A Filo.news article noted that there are several theories about the origin of this word, but the “true” one is that it is an apocope of “paquidermo” (“pachyderm” or pachydermatous”) “invented” by lesbians in the 1960s “because heterosexuality, according to them, is clumsy and boring in bed.”

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaki/ [ˈpa.ki]
• Rhymes: -aki
• Syllabification: pa‧qui

paqui m or f (masculine and feminine plural paquis)

1. (derogatory, gay slang, Argentina) straight (heterosexual)

   un boliche paqui

   a straight nightclub

paqui m or f by sense (plural paquis)

1. (derogatory, gay slang, Argentina) straight (heterosexual)

• Giménez, Paula de (21 July 2021), “¿Qué es ser ‘paqui’ y de dónde viene?”, in Filo.news‎ (in Spanish), retrieved 10 December 2023