That's interesting. I grew up in Utah and many students at public schools were the children of first-generation Mexican immigrants (or first-generation themselves) and often the answer to, "What does pendejo mean?" (because of course that question came up in Spanish class) would be something along the lines of, "I can't describe it". This helps to explain why if the question itself seems to have a parsing error. In this case, "What are this word's meanings?" might have been a more yielding question (not than an 8th grader is likely to think of that).