What does ser un cachondo / una cachonda mean?

ExpressionColoquial

to be a right laugh

In Spain, ser un cachondo means being funny, a joker, somebody who takes nothing seriously. The same family gives us cachondeo — banter, larking about — and estar de cachondeo. Careful, though: estar cachondo/a, with estar, means something entirely different and sexual. The verb changes everything, and outside Spain the adjective is heard in that second sense first.

Mi hermano es un cachondo, siempre está haciendo bromas.
A compliment, in Spain and with ser.

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