The Royal Spanish Academy has announced the new terms of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE). In its electronic version 23.7, as of this Tuesday, 4,381 innovations between words, articles, variations and deletions. The new 2023 edition includes words in line with new trends in various areas.
The term “machirulo”, with their corresponding description, are among the recent innovations. “A person, especially a man, who exhibits a macho attitude,” is the corresponding explanation of the word. The curious thing is that this meaning has its origin approximately five years ago, within the Argentine political context in which Mauricio Macri ruled the country.
The former president, in a communication to the press, addressed the Peronist senators not to allow themselves to be led “by the madness promoted by “Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.” The response from the former president was immediate. “Treating a woman crazy. “Typical of a machirulo,” was the immediate response that the senator from Citizen Unit in 2018.
At that time, “machirulo” was a term that did not exist in the Dictionary of the Spanish Language and, therefore, its use was anecdotal. Even, in some television programs, experts in the field of literature were consulted who agreed that it could be an acronym based on “macho” and “chulo”. Probably, the dissemination and subsequent legitimization of the meaning is due to that memorable tweet from the current vice president.
On the other hand, in the area of sexuality, the inclusion of terms such as “non-binary”with the description of “a person who does not perceive their gender identity in binary terms of man or woman”; “gender dysphoria” and “sexting”. Other approved meanings, with different connotations, were “hormonation”, “implantology”, “cardiocirculatory” and “perreo”.
The inclusion of other frequently used Anglicisms such as “cookie”, “big data”, “bracket”, “aquaplaning”, “alien” and “banner”. Among the new meanings of words already included in the dictionary, it stands out that the term “toxic” can no longer only be applied to a substance or compound, but also to a person or relationship “that has a harmful or pernicious influence on someone.” Finally, another very frequently used expression that becomes official is the meaning of “crack” as “a person who excels extraordinarily at something.”
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