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Meaning
What does mean?
Gabacho is a Spanish expression for somebody international, normally utilized in a pejorative method.
Relying on the origin and nationality of the person it might convey a number of completely different meanings; in America, it might be used to refer to the United States, or a white American man (often known as gringo).
In Spain, “gabacho” is used to refer to French folks in a disrespectful manner.
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Origin of the term
“Gabacho” comes from the Occitan phrase gavach which suggests northerner or peasant.
The term had been in utilized by Spanish audio system since not less than 1530, initially utilized for the French, whom the Spanish folks had their historic squabbles with.
With the progress of time and the enlargement of the Spanish empire into the New World, “gabacho” began to be utilized by the inhabitants of Central and South America to refer to white males from the United States in a disrespectful method.
Unfold of the term
With the massive quantities of inhabitants in America, who retain a Latin ancestry, the expression is basically embedded into the lingo of the United States, particularly that of the South, shut to the borders of Mexico.
“Gabacho” was added to the archives of City Dictionary in 2003 for the first time.
