noun, masculine/ˈɡwei/plural: güeyes
chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk; dude, guy, buddy; pronunciation spelling of buey
Synonyms: cabrón, tonto, carnal, cuate, tío, tía, boludo, bro
Nonstandard pronunciation-spelling variant of buey (literally “ox”) (see that entry for more); this form thus represents a shifting of /bw/ back to /ɡw/. Compare nonstandard güeno from bueno (“good”), agüelo from abuelo (“grandfather”), güelvo from vuelvo (“to return”), where /bwe/ becomes /ɡwe/. A similar phenomenon occurs in the dialectal pronunciation of Lithuanian buvai as /ɡwuei/.