Noun: pandejo
| Singular | pandejo |
| Plural | pandejos |
Sample Sentences
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It’ll happen until we, like these three people bravely did during their reckonings with the dreaded disease, begin to truly call out pandejo behavior. […] He does think we need to call out pandejos, but in a way that makes them “realize that we [Latinos] can take care of each other and pull through together anything, because we’ve done it before.” [2020 December 3, Gustavo Arellano, “Don’t be a ‘pandejo.’ Take the pandemic seriously”, in Los Angeles Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:]
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This is infamously "pandejo" central — the home of pandemic pendejos, or blockheads. [2021 August 4, Gustavo Arellano, “At my wife's Santa Ana market, the masks have never come off”, in The Los Angeles Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021:]
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As I shared then, he once was the king of pandejos — the Mexican Spanish term for covidiots. [2022 January 4, Gustavo Arellano, “We all need a pandemic-era hero in 2022”, in San Diego Union-Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2026:]
Nouns inflected like pandejo
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Spanish pandejo (see below), or formed in English from pandemic and Spanish pendejo (“contemptible person”). Attested from 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. See: Spanish Nouns '
pandejo', Spanish Nouns '
pendejo'.