gaucho

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtʃəʊ

gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)

1. 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.

2. (finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.

• gauchos (clothing)
• gauchesque

• huaso
• charro
• cowboy
• llanero
• vaquero

• gaucho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• guacho

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho.

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.ʃo/, /ɡot.ʃo/, (rare) /ɡa.ut.ʃo/

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gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. gaucho (Argentine cowboy)

From gauche +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.ʃo/

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gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. (derogatory) leftist, leftie

• “gaucho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish gaucho.

gaucho m (plural gaucho)

1. gaucho

Of unknown origin, probably from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu (“vagrant, wanderer”), kauču (“friend”), or Quechua wahcha (“vagabond, poor person”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaut͡ʃo/ [ˈɡau̯.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -autʃo
• Syllabification: gau‧cho

gaucho (feminine gaucha, masculine plural gauchos, feminine plural gauchas)

1. (Rioplatense) possessing traditional, especially Argentine, cowboy virtues; noble, valiant, generous
2. (South America, informal) helpful

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. (Paraguay, Rioplatense) cowboy

   Synonyms: charro, huaso, llanero, vaquero

• → Portuguese: gaúcho

• “gaucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• gaucho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es