boricua
boricua adjective: puerto Rican.
Adjective (1)
boricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)
- Puerto Rican.
- She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 55
Noun (1)
boricua (plural boricuas)
- A Puerto Rican.
Adjective (2) capitalized: Boricua
Boricua (comparative more Boricua, superlative most Boricua)
- Alternative letter-case form of boricua.
- After […] the war ended, and on through the postwar years and into the fifties—during the great waves of Boricua migration to New York—Thomas Painter developed a particular admiration for Puerto Ricans.2023, Justin Torres, Blackouts, Granta Books (2024), page 80
Noun (2) capitalized: Boricua
Boricua (plural Boricuas)
- Alternative letter-case form of boricua.
Forms of boricua
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more boricua |
| superlative | most boricua |
| alternative form | Boricua |
| comparative | more Boricua |
| superlative | most Boricua |
| Noun | |
| plural | boricuas |
| plural | Boricuas |
Origin of boricua
From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Questions about boricua
- What does boricua mean?
- Boricua means puerto Rican.
- What part of speech is boricua?
- Boricua can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near boricua in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: boricua (page history and authors); Boricua (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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