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gaucho

US/ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/

gaucho noun: a cowboy of the South American pampas.

gaucho: a cowboy of the South American pampas
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Noun

gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)

  1. A cowboy of the South American pampas.
    • Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. (historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.

Forms of gaucho

pluralgauchos
pluralgauchoes

Origin of gaucho

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.

Words formed from gaucho

Words that rhyme with gaucho

Questions about gaucho

What does gaucho mean?
Gaucho means a cowboy of the South American pampas.
What part of speech is gaucho?
Gaucho is a noun.
How do you pronounce gaucho?
Gaucho is pronounced /ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of gaucho?
The plural of gaucho is gauchos.

Words near gaucho in the dictionary

  1. gauches
  2. gauchesco
  3. gauchesque
  4. gauchest
  5. gauching
  6. gaucho
  7. gaucho-esque
  8. gauchoes
  9. gauchoesque
  10. gauchos
  11. Gaucin

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