# Everyday Argentine words: laburo, quilombo, pibe, guita

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**Summary.** A lunfardo-tinged kit: laburo (work), quilombo (mess), pibe/piba (kid), guita (money), boludo (dude/idiot), copado (cool), bondi (bus), morfar (to eat) — heavily Italian-influenced.

Argentine everyday vocabulary carries a strong lunfardo layer — the Buenos Aires slang born of Italian immigration. Core items: laburo / laburar (work, from Italian lavoro), morfar (to eat), guita (money), mango (a peso, a 'buck'), bondi (bus).

People and judgments: pibe/piba (kid, young person), mina (woman, informal), boludo/a and pelotudo/a (idiot — or, among friends, an affectionate 'dude'), copado and groso (great, cool), and quilombo (a mess or chaos — one of the most useful words to know).

Intensifiers and fillers seal the accent: re before an adjective means 'very' (re copado, re caro), bárbaro means 'great', and che opens or closes almost anything. A dozen of these words unlock most casual porteño conversation.

## Examples
- Tengo un montón de laburo esta semana. — I have a ton of work this week. *(laburo = work (from Italian lavoro).)*
- Se armó un quilombo bárbaro en la oficina. — A huge mess broke out at the office.
- Ese pibe está re copado. — That kid is really cool. *(re = very; copado = cool.)*

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