jagunço

English

Etymology

From Portuguese jagunço.

Noun

jagunço (plural jagunços)

  1. A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
    • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 85:
      Maria Quadrado, Alexandrinha Correa, and Gertrudes […] went around placing the dead bodies of jagunços in hammock litters so that they could be carried back to Canudos to be buried.
    • 2016, Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires:
      Though the government forces carried modern rifles against their one-shot muskets and scraping knives, the jagunços repelled first a detachment of a hundred men and then a detachment of five hundred.

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒaˈɡũ.su/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒaˈɡũ.so/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʒɐˈɡũ.su/ [ʒɐˈɣũ.su]

  • Hyphenation: ja‧gun‧ço

Noun

jagunço m (plural jagunços)

  1. (Brazil) bodyguard; thug, hoodlum; jagunço
    Synonyms: capanga, caceteiro
  2. hitman, contract killer (man hired to kill)
  3. scamp, rascal
  4. a blade traditionally used as a weapon in Bahia and Pernambuco
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