gaucho
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/
- Rhymes: -aʊtʃəʊ
Noun
gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)
- A cowboy of the South American pampas.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡo.ʃo/, /ɡot.ʃo/, (rare) /ɡa.ut.ʃo/
Audio (file)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡo.ʃo/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “gaucho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
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
- IPA(key): /ˈɡaut͡ʃo/ [ˈɡau̯.t͡ʃo]
- Rhymes: -autʃo
- Syllabification: gau‧cho
Descendants
- → Portuguese: gaúcho
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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