Idiot — the harder-hitting cousin of boludo.
Where *boludo* has gone soft enough to mean "dude", *pelotudo* has not. It still lands as a genuine insult, though close friends use it jokingly. *Una pelotudez* is a stupid act or a trivial thing.
Same family as *boludo*, from an old scale of insults based on size. *Pelotudo* sits above it.
Much stronger than *boludo*. Learners who have learned that *boludo* is friendly often assume this one is too — it is not.
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