Etymograph

English

jagunço

Jagunço comes from Portuguese jagunço ‘bodyguard’.

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentjagunço‘bodyguard’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentjagunço‘bodyguard’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984same form

Earliest quotation: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World: “Maria Quadrado, Alexandrinha Correa, and Gertrudes […] went around…”

Every English word from Portuguese jagunço

Today it means

noun A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.

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Etymograph / Portuguese jagunço / jagunço

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