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Coño is a common Spanish idiomatic expression (vulgar). Its actual meaning differs according to region or country, but in Spain and several Latin American countries it is understood as slang for the female genitalia, the vulva.
Coño has become a feature of speech to express emphasis or to stress a wide variety of emotions, actually drifting from any of its original sexual references, in a situation similar to that of “fuck” in English. The actual context, speaker’s sex, pronunciation or tone defines the kind of emotion conveyed. An interlocutor may insert coño as an interjection in a sentence whenever this desire arises, even though it may be regarded as quite offensive if not carefully used. It originated from the Dominican Republic, where it is widely used. It is also used frequently in the film Scarface, where most of the characters are Cuban. Several examples:
- fear: low tone, short vowels, high-pitched: ¡Coño, coño! ¡Esta abeja me va a picar! (This bee will sting me!)
- anger: high tone, short vowels: ¡Coño, ya te dije que no lo hicieras! (Hey, I already told you not to do that!)
- surprise: low tone, dragging the “o”: Coooño… ¿Están saliendo juntos? (Oh, really? Are they going out?)
- joy: dragging vowels, low-pitched: ¡Cooñoo! ¡Nuestro equipo ganó! (Thank goodness! Our team won!)
As noted before, this is not a formal feature and is limited to slang and intimate speech.
Other examples of its varied use are:
- ¡Coño, qué bueno/a está! (Damn he/she looks good!)
- Yo no sé un coño de eso (I don’t know fuck about that)
- ¿Dónde coño estás? (Where the fuck are you?)
- ¡Coñazo! (the strongest expression to “Fuck!”)
- ¡Qué coñazo! (In Spain: Damn boring!)
