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jagunços

jagunços is the plural of jagunço.

Meaning of jagunço

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

Questions about jagunços

What is jagunços the plural of?
Jagunços is the plural of jagunço.

Words near jagunços in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jagunços (page history and authors); jagunço (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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