Etymology

rasquache

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Today it means: Having or relating to a do-it-yourself attitude in Chicano culture; able to make something from nothing, or make do with the resources at hand. Full definition →

Mexican Spanish rascuache
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The story

  1. Mexican Spanish · borrowed fromrascuache“poor, coarse or vulgar”
  2. English todayrasquache

From Mexican Spanish rascuache (“poor, coarse or vulgar”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.