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to get bummed out / to get discouragedThat’s what pretty much every Spanish dictionary / video says, at least.
And, yes, that
IS how it’s often used:
No te agüites, wey, nomás trata de mejorar tu CV.Don’t get discouraged, dude. Just try to improve your CV.Sí me siento medio agüitado, la neta.Honestly, I do feel a bit down.BUT it can also mean something like:
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to get upset / to be botheredThere are some juicy examples of this down below 👇
Real examples from Voces de México
Félix the fruit seller / underground rapper uses it twice in the
get upset / bothered sense.
In both examples, he’s talking about his supervisor
NOT being bothered by either their constant banter (in example 1) or their drinking (in example 2).
At approx. 07:33:
Luego, luego, también echábamos cotorreo, el encargado no se agüitaba.Sometimes we’d joke around too, and the supervisor didn’t care.
At approx. 07:36:
Luego, pos, te veía, pues, ahí, tú estabas, este, echándote, pues, no sé, un traguito, ¿no? Algo, una chela o así, y no se agüitaba.Sometimes he’d see you there having, um, I don’t know, a drink, right? A beer or something, and he didn’t mind.