Chileanism

plural Chileanisms

1. countableuncountableA term or linguistic feature originating from or specific to the Chilean variety of the Spanish language.

   Curco is a Chileanism, meaning literally to be bent over with an irritating burden.

   1991, Cynthia G. Brown, Human rights and the "politics of agreements": Chile during President Aylwin's first year, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 36

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   Chinanga is, according to Román's Diccionario de chilenismos, not so much a Chileanism as an Americanism, since he credits it to Chile, Perú and Ecuador: it is equivalent to the Spanish taberna, but enlivened with song and dance.

   1918 May, Julio Noé, “Sarmiento the Traveler”, in Revista de Filosofia, Buenos Aires, Argentina; republished as Inter-América, volume 4, number 3, Doubleday, Page & Company, 28 February 1921, page 141

   The verb pechar is a Chileanism derived from pecho, or chest, and means to employ much effort to accomplish a particular goal.

   1977, Arturo Valenzuela, Political brokers in Chile: local government in a centralized polity, Duke University Press, page 240

2. countableuncountableChilean nationalism