Example sentences for: pochismos

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  • Pochismos (Americanisms)

  • Some examples of pochismos are yonque for “junk,” tichar for “to teach,” and carro for “car.”

  • See also Agringado; Caló; Pochismos

  • Chicano novelists and poets have consciously incorporated the use of pochismos in literary works to reinforce the precarious cultural and linguistic status of Chicanos in American society.

  • Many English and Spanish words that have become altered by the opposite language, through cultural contact, are called pochismos.


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