pochoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pocho (countable and uncountable, plural pochos)

1. (informal) A culturally assimilated Mexican-American.

   Coordinate term: Chicano

   • 2010, Chad Richardson, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 11:

     Both often cater to wealthy Mexicans who come to shop, although many of these Mexicans look down their noses at the pochos (assimilated Mexican Americans).

   • 2012, Earl Shorris, Latinos: A Biography of the People, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 170:

     But the pochos needed a gesture, anything, some kind of cultural safe house in which they could rest for a while from the endless war on two fronts.

2. (informal, uncountable) Spanglish
   • 1986, Mexico, Little Brown & Company, →ISBN:

     But some among their countrymen speak pocho; the descriptive term can be translated literally as “discolored” or “faded.” When used with respect to language, pocho means a slangy mixture of Spanish and English […]

   • 2000, Mario T. García, Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 106:

     I especially appreciated how Villarreal changed the word pocho from a negative to a positive. The young protagonist, Richard Rubio, says, “I'm a pocho, I speak pocho, and I'm proud of it.”

Further reading

• “pocho”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

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