boricua
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Adjective
boricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican.
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 55:
- She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 55:
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
boricua m or f (masculine and feminine plural boricuas)
- (colloquial) Puerto Rican
- Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño
Noun
boricua m or f (plural boricuas)
- (colloquial) Puerto Rican
- Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño
Related terms
Further reading
- “boricua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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