Etymology

Lunfardo

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Today it means: A Spanish argot that developed at the end of the nineteenth century among the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Full definition →

Spanish lunfardo
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromlunfardo
  2. English todayLunfardo

Borrowed from Spanish lunfardo, probably from an alteration of lombardo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.