gabacho

Spanish

Etymology

From Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/, [ɡaˈβat͡ʃo]

Adjective

gabacho (feminine singular gabacha, masculine plural gabachos, feminine plural gabachas)

  1. (geography) Pyrenean
  2. Gallic, frenchified

Noun

gabacho m (plural gabachos, feminine gabacha, feminine plural gabachas)

  1. a villager from the Pyrenees
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) a Frenchman, a frog
  3. (colloquial, mildly pejorative, Texas) A white man of any nation. Originally the word for rutabaga.
  4. (colloquial, derogatory, Mexico) foreigner, gringo

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