gaucho
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- noun
- /ˈɡaʊtʃoʊ/
- As is well known, gauchos are men's men.
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Watch on YouTubeThere were three gauchos with their dogs driving hundreds of sheep across the border.
- There were three gauchos with their dogs driving hundreds of sheep across the border.
Examples
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A gaucho like me who has cows and horses to talk to and no one else, except the guitar
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The gauchos drink, and I drink, and the gauchos drink some more.
Fiction book (2000) -
The gaucho steak is wonderful.
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Was there ever a gaucho revival in Argentina?
Academic text (1995) -
There were three gauchos with their dogs driving hundreds of sheep across the border.
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I have an extra bed, a fully equipped laboratory, and a stage on which I'll perform for the gauchos.
Fiction book (2000) -
Mexicans from old Mexico, Russian Cossacks from the steppes of Russia and the South American gauchos.
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And then I went from there down to the estancia with the gauchos, because people don't realize that Brazil's a huge agricultural company country.
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The self-designated public leaders of the strike were two socialist gauchos: one an upwardly mobile printer, the other not working-class at all.
Academic text (2000) -
The gaucho rode across the vast Pampas, herding cattle with expert skill.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gaucho comes from Spanish in South America and probably from an old local word huachu meaning 'orphan' or 'vagabond'. That image of a lone, free rider explains the modern meaning: a gaucho is like a South American cowboy, a roaming horseman of the Pampas, the wide open plains.