mestizo

Meaning

1. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
2. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.

Synonyms

half-breed

ladino

artful

crafty

crossbreed

cunning

deadpan

deceitful

devious

dexterous

half blood

half-caste

huggermugger

hybrid

mongrel

mulatto

roguish

shifty

sly

underhanded

upper class

wily

practic

scampish

mestiza

Ladino

fawce

Metis

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.