huevón
noun, adjectiveVulgar
A Mexican Spanish slang term. Browse all Mexican slang.
What it means
A lazy person; idle, work-shy. The related noun hueva means idleness, and qué hueva means 'what a drag'.
Examples with translations
Levántate, huevón, ya son las dos.
Get up, you lazy sod, it's two o'clock.
Qué hueva ir hasta allá un domingo.
What a drag, going all that way on a Sunday.
Note: hueva — the noun — is far milder than huevón and usable almost anywhere.
Where it comes from
From huevos in the anatomical sense; the image is of someone too weighed down to move. Mild among friends, insulting from a stranger or a superior.
Other forms
- Spellings and variants:
- hueva, huevona
- Similar terms:
- flojo