Meanings
- A language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
The Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is said to have had it that Spanglish is “neither good, nor bad, but abominable.”
2021 November 23, John McWhorter, “America Has More Than One Spanglish”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Dec 20211 more example
“It’s a lot of trying to understand how other languages work,” Rosalía, 33, said in an interview, conducted in English with a sprinkling of Spanglish, on Popcast, The New York Times’s music show.
2025 October 30, Joe Coscarelli, Jon Caramanica, “Rosalía’s Thrilling New Avant-Pop Swerve: Singing in 13 Languages”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: Espanglish, espanglés, pocho
- The mixing of Spanish and English together in a sentence.
His Spanglish was quite embarrassing when he said he was “embarazado”, as that means “pregnant”, not “embarrassed”.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
Origin
Translations
Finnish spanglish
- spanglishblend of English and Spanish
French spanglish
- spanglishblend of English and Spanish
Greek ισπανοαγγλικά
- ισπανοαγγλικά (ispanoangliká)blend of English and Spanish
Italian spanglish
- spanglishblend of English and Spanish
Portuguese espanglês
- espanglêsblend of English and Spanish
Russian Портуньол
- Портуньол (Portunʹol)blend of English and Spanish
Spanish espanglish, spanglish
- espanglishblend of English and Spanish
- spanglishblend of English and Spanish
- espanglésblend of English and Spanish
- ingléspañolblend of English and Spanish
Swedish spangelska
- spangelskablend of English and Spanish
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
Spanglish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Spanglish
“Spanglish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Spanglish. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Spanglish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Spanglish.
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