jevi

What it means

1. 1.

   Cool, great, impressive. A general-purpose compliment for objects, plans and events.

2. 2.

   Of a person, easy-going and good company rather than fashionable.

Examples with translations

• Esa chaqueta tá jevi.

  That jacket's sharp.

• El profesor e' jevi, no manda tarea lo' viernes.

  The teacher's sound — he doesn't set homework on Fridays.

Where it comes from

From English 'heavy', which reached Dominican Spanish through rock and heavy metal in the 1980s and was respelled to fit Spanish orthography — the j is an English h. It is now used by people with no connection to the music and reads as slightly older than duro.

First attested: 1980s

Other forms

Spellings and variants:

jevy, heavy

Similar terms:

duro, brutal