Es un/una pesado/a
Meaning: A dreadful bore — their company feels like carrying extra weight.
Language: Spanish
Literally: They're a heavy one
Category: Insult
Origin: Pesado (heavy) used colloquially for someone whose presence is a burden.
More compliments & insults — Insult
- Más terco/a que una mula — Hopelessly obstinate — no argument, fact, or force of nature will shift their position.
- Pareces un pulpo en un garaje — You're completely out of place — flailing around uselessly in an environment that makes n…
- Che rompiscatole — What an insufferable pest — someone who endlessly pesters and never lets you be.
- Testa quadrata — A rigid, inflexible blockhead who refuses to see beyond their fixed ideas.
- È un mammone — An overgrown man who can't make a decision without his mother — the Italian archetype of…
- Che piagnucolone — A relentless crybaby who finds something to complain about in every situation.
More Spanish compliments & insults
- Eres la leche — You're the best — absolutely fantastic.
- Eres más corto que las mangas de un chaleco — You're not the sharpest — a bit slow on the uptake.
- Eres un sol — You're a lovely, warm-hearted person.
- Eres más bueno que el pan — You are a genuinely good, kind soul.
- Tienes menos luces que un barco pirata — You're really not the brightest.
- Eres más lento que el caballo del malo — You're painfully slow — the villain's horse never catches the hero.
From our idioms
- no haber color — there is no comparison; one option is vastly superior to another.
- cada muerte de obispo — extremely rarely; once in a blue moon.
- arroz con mango — a chaotic, confused mess or pandemonium.