gaucho
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
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Noun
gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)
- A cowboy of the South American pampas.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
- (finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.
Derived terms
- gauchos (clothing)
- gauchesque
Translations
South American cowboy
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Further reading
Anagrams
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
gaucho m (plural gauchos)
- gaucho (Argentine cowboy)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
gaucho m (plural gauchos)
Further reading
- “gaucho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish gaucho.
Noun
gaucho m (plural gaucho)
Declension
Declension of gaucho
Spanish
Etymology
Of unknown origin, probably from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu (“vagrant, wanderer”), kauču (“friend”), or Quechua wahcha (“vagabond, poor person”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gaucho (feminine gaucha, masculine plural gauchos, feminine plural gauchas)
- possessing traditional, especially Argentine, cowboy virtues; noble, valiant, generous
- (South America, informal) helpful
Noun
gaucho m (plural gauchos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gaucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- gaucho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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