macana
Meanings
Noun
1. a type of long club, sometimes studded with sharp pieces of rock, used by the natives of America (Latin America)
a. baton, nightstick (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Bolivia)
b. cock, dick (Mexico, Caribbean, Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, vulgar)
2. the wood of the peach palm (uncountable)
3. an unpleasant situation (colloquial, Southern Cone, Bolivia, rare in Peru, rare)
4. lie (colloquial, Rioplatense, Bolivia, Paraguay, rare in Peru, rare)
a. no matter, noise (a thing of little importance) (colloquial, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, rare)
b. nonsense (colloquial, Uruguay, rare)
5. hoe (Central America)
6. a baluster of a balcony’s balustrade
7. a type of thin cotton shawl worn by mestizo women in Bolivia and Ecuador
Examples3
¡Déjese de macanas, viejo!
Cut the crap, dad!
Es una macana, este asunto me huele a revolución.
It is bad situation, this affair reeks of revolution.
Se dejaron venir los granaderos con escudos y macanas.
The grenadiers came with shields and batons.