root word: táray (arrogance or churlishness)
Kataray…
Napakataray…
How prickly…
Ang taray niya!
My, she’s so sassy!
The Tagalog word mataray is used to describe women who answer you back in a sharp, snappy way.
Filipino women are socially expected to be nice and modest. Any woman who answers back bluntly or brusquely is given the label mataray and is associated with pretentiousness and bitchiness.
A Filipina actress who has iconically managed to use her mataray image as an asset is Maricel Soriano.
katarayan, also pakamataray
the state of being snobbish, pretentious
Other connotations of the adjective mataray in English: stuck-up, bratty, snobby, prickly, snippy, sassy, cantankerous, cranky, churlish, has an attitude, acting like a bitch
MGA KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG
matáray: mahilig at masakít pumuna
matáray: masungit at mahilig mamintas
Actually, this word is also used for arrogant men, not just for women. Anyone who is sassy regardless of gender, we’d regard them as “mataray.”
Hahahhaha
true. i am literally on this page as Im looking for a translation to show my husband that he’s mataray to me