de puro fay
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de ˌpuɾo ˈfai/ [d̪e ˌpu.ɾo ˈfai̯]
- Syllabification: de pu‧ro fay
Adverb
de puro fay (slang, El Salvador, Honduras)
- in vain; vainly
- just because; for the hell of it; for no particular reason
- Synonym: porque sí
- by chance; unexpectedly
- Synonym: por casualidad
Further reading
- “de puro fay”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010