Etymology

cocoliche

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Today it means: A pidgin or language continuum formed from Italian and Spanish, spoken in parts of the River Plate region of South America between the late nineteenth century and the 1970s. Full definition →

Spanish cocoliche
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed fromcocoliche
  2. English todayCocoliche

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cocoliche, named after Cocoliche, a fictional comedic character inspired by the broken Spanish of Calabrian immigrant Antonio Cuccolicchio during a stage improvisation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.