boricua
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Adjective
editboricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican.
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 55:
- She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.
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editSpanish
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editPronunciation
editAdjective
editboricua m or f (masculine and feminine plural boricuas)
- (colloquial) Puerto Rican
- Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño
Noun
editboricua m or f by sense (plural boricuas)
- (colloquial) Puerto Rican
- Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: boricua
Further reading
edit- “boricua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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