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paisanos

paisanos is the plural of paisano.

Meaning of paisano

Noun (1)

paisano (plural paisanos)

  1. (US) An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men.

Noun (2)

paisano (plural paisanos)

  1. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
  2. (Southwestern, US) A roadrunner.
    • Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 178, column 2

Questions about paisanos

What is paisanos the plural of?
Paisanos is the plural of paisano.

Words near paisanos in the dictionary

  1. paisa vasool
  2. paisan
  3. paisana
  4. paisanas
  5. paisano
  6. paisanos
  7. paisans
  8. paisas
  9. paise
  10. paiseek
  11. paiseh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paisanos (page history and authors); paisano (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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