Definitions for gauchos

gauchos gau·cho

Spelling: [gou-choh; Spanish gou-chaw]
IPA: /ˈgaʊ tʃoʊ; Spanish ˈgaʊ tʃɔ/

Gauchos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in gauchos (acghosu).

Definitions for gauchos

noun

  1. a native cowboy of the South American pampas, usually of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.
  2. gauchos, Also called gaucho pants. wide, calf-length trousers for men or women modeled after the trousers worn by South American gauchos.

Origin of gauchos

1815-25; American Spanish Arawak cachu comrade

Examples for gauchos

And communicating this to the gaucho, he holds their horses while they return to search for them.

If aunt desired to feast her eyes on the gaucho malo she had now a chance.

The gaucho chief—if we may so style him—presented his musket and pulled the trigger.

But again the gaucho, no: greatly given to sentiment, objects.

Notwithstanding all this, Gaspar the gaucho is not to be baulked in his design.

A mounted gaucho rides on either side of him, to keep him straight.

The emphasis on the “him” points to some one not yet mentioned, but whom the gaucho has in his mind.

The gaucho has no thought of so appealing, any more than either of the others.

Saying this, the gaucho relapses into silence, the others also ceasing to converse.

In the midst of this elemental war the party reached the gaucho huts.

Word Value for gauchos
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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