jagunço
English edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese jagunço.
Noun edit
jagunço (plural jagunços)
- A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 85:
- Maria Quadrado, Alexandrinha Correa, and Gertrudes […] went around placing the dead bodies of jagunços in hammock litters so that they could be carried back to Canudos to be buried.
- 2016, Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires:
- Though the government forces carried modern rifles against their one-shot muskets and scraping knives, the jagunços repelled first a detachment of a hundred men and then a detachment of five hundred.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ja‧gun‧ço
Noun edit
jagunço m (plural jagunços)