gaucho

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US/ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/

noun

A cowboy of the South American pampas.

OriginSpanish gaucho →
Less commonScrabble 12
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Meanings

noungaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)

plural gauchos · plural gauchoes

  1. A cowboy of the South American pampas.

    Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. historicalbusinessA proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.

Origin

  1. Spanishgaucho
  2. Englishgaucho

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.

More words from Spanish

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Translations

Catalan gautxo
  • gautxoSouth American cowboy
Esperanto gaŭĉo
  • gaŭĉoSouth American cowboy
French gaucho
  • gauchoSouth American cowboy
German Gaucho
  • GauchoSouth American cowboy
Hebrew גאוצ׳ו
  • גאוצ׳וSouth American cowboy
Japanese ガウチョ
  • ガウチョ (gaucho)South American cowboy
Korean 가우초
  • 가우초 (gaucho)South American cowboy
Polish gaucho
  • gauchoSouth American cowboy
Portuguese gaúcho
  • gaúchoSouth American cowboy
Russian га́учо
  • га́учо (gáučo)South American cowboy
Spanish gaucho
  • gauchoSouth American cowboy
Ukrainian га́учо
  • га́учо (háučo)South American cowboy

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

guacho
Cite this entry
APA

gaucho. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaucho

MLA

“gaucho.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaucho. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gaucho,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaucho.

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