Spanish word. What does it mean ??????????????

Question

A Spanish guy, he is a waiter in a tapas bar called me "SIMPARTICO". Was he being rude,sarcastic, polite,disrespectful or what. My wife says she knows but wont tell me, she said it will do my ego no good. I don't think i've got an ego but I can't argue with the C.E.O, she who must be obeyed.

I suppose I should get mad at "ivor biggen" but life can't be that easy for somone who's knuckles drag on the ground, and who was made before God perfected the amoeba. You do also find that people who adopt names like "ivor biggen"are normaly sadly lacking in the reproductive department. I also see you don't put a face to your tag, we call people like that KIPPER, two faced and gutless. nuff said

Answer 1

The problem here seems to be, in some of the answers, the spelling of the word "Simpatico/ Simpartico". Remember the guy (jimmy the one) only heard the word, not saw it written down so how would he know how its spelt? I think some are confusing the first four letters "simp" as English simple, it don't work that way, It's like saying FATAL is similar to FAT, or OBLONG is similar to OBESE, as I say it don't work like that. The O.E.D. description is>>>> adjective (of a person) Likable and easy to get along with, having or characterized by shared attributes or interests, quite the opposite of simple. Who know perhaps he gave the waiter guy a big tip!

Answer 2

There is a Spanish word SIMPATICO which means nice, pleasant or kind.

Answer 3

The Word is simpatico. It is a good thing.
It basically means that you're cool, easy to get a long with, fun loving. That sort of thing

Answer 4

Sympatico means you're nice, agreeable, fun to be around, etc...
I don't know about sympartico, with the 'r' though. There might be some play on words, there, but my Spanish is not good enough to tell.

Answer 5

I agree with George D; depends for the tone, the meaning could be bad o good. And if as I suppose the man told you this is "andaluz"; from the South of Spain, then is more possible a sarcastic form to talk. South people has funny sense or humour, I know it because I am have from the south.
I remember when my nanny told to a friend, she was painted as a door, and she said that this woman was really beautiful, and the woman didn´t noticed that my nanny wanted really say, and she said to my nanny thanks. My mother and me nearly fell in the floor laughing.

Answer 6

"Was he being rude,sarcastic, polite, disrespectful or what?"

Possibly all of these at the same time!

simpatico [ sim·pá·ti·co -ca ]

adj.

1. (amable) likeable, congenial

The accent over the a indicates a soft/long/open vowel sound - like 'ah' - which English speakers may think they hear (or may transcribe) as if it ends with a soft 'r', as in 'are' or 'our'. Americans, who of course pronounce the 'r' more clearly, but get everything else wrong, might transcribe the long 'ah' sound as an 'o', since they pronounce words like 'God' as if it were 'guard'. Thus while you wrote what you heard as "simpartico", an American might have written it as "simpotico".

Answer 7

Simpatico. The cognate word in English is "sympathetic"; the Spanish word means good-natured. If your wife thinks he was being disrespectful, perhaps it also means simpleton(?).

Answer 8

I think you mean simpatico, which means a nice person to talk to.

Answer 9

it the spanish word for nice

Answer 10

simpatico means nice