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jagunço

jagunço noun: a hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.

Noun

jagunço (plural jagunços)

  1. A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
    • 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.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 85
    • 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.2016, Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires

Forms of jagunço

pluraljagunços

Origin of jagunço

From Portuguese jagunço.

Questions about jagunço

What does jagunço mean?
Jagunço means a hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
What part of speech is jagunço?
Jagunço is a noun.
What is the plural of jagunço?
The plural of jagunço is jagunços.

Words near jagunço in the dictionary

  1. jaguarundis
  2. jaguas
  3. jagueite
  4. Jagumba
  5. Jagungal Wilderness
  6. jagunço
  7. jagunços
  8. jagweed
  9. jagweeds
  10. Jah
  11. Jah Hut

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