gabacho

Meaning

Adj

1. Pyrenean
2. Gallic, frenchified

Noun

1. (masculine) a villager from the Pyrenees
2. (Spain, colloquial, masculine) a Frenchman, a frog, Frenchy, baguette
3. (Texas, colloquial, masculine, mildly, pejorative) a white man of any nation (originally the word for rutabaga)
4. (Mexico, colloquial, derogatory, masculine) foreigner, gringo, specifically, from the United States

Concepts

gringo

Yankee

Froggy

Synonyms

gringo

francés

🇫🇷/🇲🇫/🇬🇵/🇲🇶/🇵🇲/🇷🇪/🇹🇫/🇾🇹

cobarde

franchute

🇫🇷/🇲🇫/🇬🇵/🇲🇶/🇵🇲/🇷🇪/🇹🇫/🇾🇹

Translations

Ami

🇺🇸/🇲🇵/🇺🇲

Ausländer

französisch

🇫🇷/🇲🇫/🇬🇵/🇲🇶/🇵🇲/🇷🇪/🇹🇫/🇾🇹

Gringo

Froschfresser

Anglo-américain

mangeur de grenouilles

bouffeur de grenouilles

Yankee

Hyphenated as

ga‧ba‧cho

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan: gavach

In summary

Borrowed from Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).