The story
- Mexican Spanish · borrowed frompocho
- English todaypocho
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish pocho (literally “discolored, faded”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pocho
Today it means: A Mexican-American, especially one regarded by Mexicans as being assimilated into mainstream American culture, often implying limited to no fluency in Spanish and disconnection from Mexican culture. Full definition →
Mexican Spanish pocho