zambo
Meaning
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- bowlegged, bandy-legged
- (Latin-America) Zambo (one of mixed African and Native American ancestry)
Synonyms
Hyphenated as
zam‧bo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈθambo/
Etymology
In summary
Uncertain, but probably from an alteration of Vulgar Latin *strambus (“squinting, crosseyed, crooked, distorted”), from Latin strabus, from Ancient Greek στραβός (strabós).
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