pendejo noun a fool US From the Spanish of Mexican-Americans, literally translated as “a pubic hair”.
— Dagoberto Fuentes, BarrioLanguageDictionary, p. 113, 1974
This scrawny pendejo wheeled a mutant ‘65 GTO which he claimed could outjump Crystal Blue Persuasion, though the Imp and Goat had never showed down. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 176, 1990