yuca
Meanings
Adjective
1. difficult, hard, often serious. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, colloquial)
2. strict, severe in discipline. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, colloquial)
3. smart and skillful. (El Salvador, colloquial)
Examples3
La maestra suele ser bien yuca con sus clases.
The teacher tends to be very strict with her classes.
Ella está pasando por un problema muy yuca justo ahora.
She's going through a very difficult problem right now.
Ese chico es muy yuca para las matemáticas.
That boy is so smart (skillfull) at mathematics.