Learn English – Which would be the english word for “perroflauta”

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This is a Spanish slang word, usually used despectively which refers to certain type of people with usually extreme leftist or progressist ideas (meaning with progressist ideas things like being pro-abortion, pro-multiculturalism pro-inmigration pro-feminism etc) that are seen on street playing a flute and near to a dog, which usually have looks which don't match with what people consider serious. It's also commonly used as an insult for people that show that extreme ideas whatever their looks are. I'm leaving this link to some google images to show the meaning more graphically.

I'd like to know which would be the word that describes those meanings, or maybe the different words that exist for each one (maybe one describes the person and another one is used as an insult).

For example:

For the person

That guy over there that's playing the flute is a [searched word]

And for an insult

Your ideas are extremely ridiculous. You are just a [searched word] that doesn't even shower himself!

Thanks for your help.

Best Answer

I think it's the generalized common use of the word hippie:

(especially in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair and wearing beads, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs. (GOOG)

In more modern usage has been a derogatory term for leftists, as evidenced in the more "modern" urbandictionary.com:

The movement, then and now, is considered a sub-culture by sociologists that associates itself with the left in all its political opinions.

The unwashed, unkempt part definitely fits that groove, man.

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