Example sentences for: pochismos

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  • Various dictionaries of Chicano Spanish and Chicano slang have been compiled that list many other pochismos.

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

  • Examples of some pochismos are words such as parkear, meaning to park (the car), and wachar, meaning to watch (hay te wacho, “I’ll see you”), also spelled guachate, meaning “watch out.”

  • See also Agringado; Caló; Pochismos

  • Pochismos (Americanisms)


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