Spanglish

Proper noun

Spanglish

1. A language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
   • The Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is said to have had it that Spanglish is “neither good, nor bad, but abominable.”2021 November 23, John McWhorter, “America Has More Than One Spanglish”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2021
   • “It’s a lot of trying to understand how other languages work,” Rosalía, 33, said in an interview, conducted in English with a sprinkling of Spanglish, on Popcast, The New York Times’s music show.2025 October 30, Joe Coscarelli, Jon Caramanica, “Rosalía’s Thrilling New Avant-Pop Swerve: Singing in 13 Languages”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   Espanglish, espanglés, pocho

2. The mixing of Spanish and English together in a sentence.
   • His Spanglish was quite embarrassing when he said he was “embarazado”, as that means “pregnant”, not “embarrassed”.