pocho

See also: pochó and po̱cho̱'

English edit

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish pocho (literally “discolored, faded”).

pocho (countable and uncountable, plural pochos)

(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.
(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.”

Of expressive origin and probably related to the root of pachucho (“under the weather; overripe”).

pocho m (uncountable)

pocho m (plural pochos, feminine pocha, feminine plural pochas)

(Mexico, slang, derogatory) pocho (assimilated Mexican-American who speaks poor or broken Spanish, and has become a gringo)

pocho (feminine pocha, masculine plural pochos, feminine plural pochas)

pocho