guango

English

Noun

guango (plural guangos)

1. (Jamaica) The tree Albizia saman, of the pea family.

Jamaican Creole

Albizia saman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwaŋɡʌ/
• Hyphenation: guan‧go

Noun

guango (plural guango dem, quantified guango)

1. Albizia saman, guango, monkey pod tree, rain tree

   After yuh pass the guango tree pon di lef hand side, guh roun di corner yu si wah cow tie pon a light post ...

   Go past the rain tree on your left. Then go round the corner. There you'll see a cow tied to a lamppost ...

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 272

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwanɡo/ [ˈɡwãŋ.ɡo]
• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Syllabification: guan‧go

Noun

guango m (plural guangos)

1. (Mexico) baggy or loose-fitting clothing (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense, particularly "adjective misinterpreted as a noun? it's strange that there was no adjective sense; if it exists as a noun add it back)"?)

Adjective

guango (feminine guanga, masculine plural guangos, feminine plural guangas)

1. (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador) baggy, loose (of clothes)

   La ropa le queda guanga.

   The clothes fit him loosely.

2. (Mexico) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   un viejo guango ― a (???) old man

Further reading

• “guango”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “guango”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010