viejevo

What it means

1. 1.

   A middle-aged man who dresses, talks and dates as though he were twenty — and specifically one who pursues much younger women. Mocking, never a compliment.

2. 2.

   The feminine viejeva is used the same way of women, though rather less often, which tells you something about who does the mocking.

Examples with translations

• Ese viejevo tiene cincuenta año' y anda detrá' de la' del liceo.

  That old lech is fifty and he's chasing schoolgirls.

• Se puso una cadena y ahora e' un viejevo.

  He put on a gold chain and now he thinks he's twenty again.

Where it comes from

A blend of viejo and jevo — literally 'old boyfriend' in the sense of an old man playing at being someone's jevo. A 2010s coinage carried out of the barrio by dembow lyrics, and now understood anywhere Dominican music is played.

First attested: 2010s

Other forms

Spellings and variants:

viejeva, viejebo