paisano
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Spanish, from French paysan
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
paisano (plural paisanos)
- Peasant; rustic
- One's fellow countryman; compatriot
- native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry
- (Southwest U.S.) roadrunner
- about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
- Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.
- about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
Anagrams [edit]
Spanish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French païsan, itself from Latin pagus (“countryside”)
Noun [edit]
paisano m (plural paisanos, feminine singular paisana, feminine plural paisanas)
- a fellow countryman
- a peasant (someone who lives in the countryside)
