Camarão

I like to give back to the community. This is a public service announcement about important slang for referring to a women’s looks. Clearly this is very important information for us all to have. Given the results of my research, I've decided to begin using these excellent terms when rating men's looks as well.

For those that are not familiar, in North America, many use the term Butter Face to describe a woman that may have some attractive qualities (ie a great body), except does not have an attractive face to match (or is just plain ugly/feia). As in, everything is hot, “but her face”, commonly employed as 'butter face'. Usage: “She’s got a great rack, too bad she’s a real butter face.” For more entertaining reading on this term and others, please refer to one of my favourite sites, urbandictionary.com.

Interestingly, there is a synonym for this in most all Latin American cultures. I learned the Brazilian version immediately and then proceeded to research this for other countries. Here is the resulting list:

Brazil: Camarão. Camarão is a shrimp, if you think of a shrimp that may by served with the head still attached, you can extrapolate the meaning...the body is good but the head needs to be removed. Or, a similar term is Raimunda: Feia de cara, e bonita de bunda… Ugly in the face, nice/ pretty in the butt (bunda). Urbandictionary is also all over this one. And no surprise, we all know what body part is important in Brazil. In fact, a Brazilian guy told me recently: "Brazilian men like their women leaving." As in, so they can view them from behind.

In Spanish speaking countries, the term that surfaced the most as a synonym to Butter face is Bagre (Argentina, Chile). This is a fish with horrible head. Or, also bacalao (Spanish) / Bacalhau (Portuguese), which is cod. Since since both of these can also be served whole, it implies the same concept where the head should be removed.

There's undoubtably more where these came from... I'd love to learn any other new terms so send them my way.

I hope you all enjoyed today's educational PSA. My good deed is done for the day.