The notion of pod is used in botany.
Vaina is a concept that comes from vagīna , a word from the Latin language. The term is used in different contexts , with different meanings.
A sheath can be the cover that protects a weapon , especially a knife . That is why the action of taking the weapon, removing it from the sheath, is known as unsheathing . For example: «Keep your knife in the sheath, there is no danger here» , «My uncle gave me a leather sheath for the dagger» , «The man kept his right hand on the sheath for long minutes, always ready to unsheath if the situation warranted it .
The sheath can be made of metal , leather or wood , among other materials . The blade of the weapon is introduced through the butt (also known as the throat). When the sheath is made of a material that can be damaged by the tip of the weapon, additional protection, of greater strength, is added to its end.
Firearm sheath
It should be noted that the element that allows the gunpowder and bullets to be wrapped in the same space is also called a sheath. In this way, when a firearm is fired, the projectile is ejected with great force and the bullet casing falls.
If a group of investigators find three shell casings in a room of a house where a crime has occurred, therefore, they may assume that three shots were fired from a firearm there.
The shell that encloses certain seeds is called a pod.
The term in botany
In the field of botany , on the other hand, the shell that encloses certain seeds or the sector of the leaf or petiole that widens is called a pod: "Last night I ate a whole bag of peanuts with a pod," "To make this cake use a vanilla pod « .
There are many pod vegetables , and they are characterized by having low calories and high nutritional value. Some of the best known and most used in cooking are the following: flat green beans; Malaga green beans; Kenya Haricot; broad beans; peas; and snow peas.
The idea of pod in various countries
In some Latin American countries , likewise, pod is an annoying situation or person : "I can't stand this pod anymore: we better leave this place."
Colombia is the country in which the term pod is most used, and it does not have a defined meaning , but rather serves to mention any object or situation of which we have forgotten the name . It is a real crutch that assists Colombians in their daily speech to save them the seconds necessary to find those elusive words. Something similar happens in other countries with words of dubious origin, such as coso .
While in Colombia it is common to encounter sentences such as "I don't know where I left that pod" or "Did you get the pod I told you about?" In Argentina it is not uncommon to hear "Yes, to dismantle it I need the thing" or "I'm still looking for the thing."
It is worth mentioning that Colombians do not always resort to the word pod when they do not find the right one; On the contrary, they often use it to speak in code if they find themselves in front of someone with whom they do not want to share certain information ; For example, if a person is chatting with a co-worker and wants to refer to his plans to resign, but his boss is in the same office, he may well say "in the end I'm going to go ahead with the thing I told you about." .
On the other hand, there is also the expression to scold someone, which means to scold them or try to humiliate them indirectly, situations that are usually directed at children and adults, respectively.
As happens in other parts of the world with different words, the comfort that Vain offers to Colombians has another side, one that impoverishes the language and reduces the need to think carefully before speaking.