gaucho

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a skilled horseman and cattle worker of the South American pampas, especially in Argentina and Uruguay

   The gaucho guided the herd across the open pampas before nightfall.

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho. Its deeper origin is uncertain; proposed sources include Indigenous South American languages and regional Spanish or Portuguese forms. The word became the established name for the distinctive mounted cattle workers of the pampas.

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