Definitions for locofocos

• Definition
• Anagrams (82)

locofocos Lo·co·fo·co

Spelling: [loh-koh-foh-koh]

IPA: /ˌloʊ koʊˈfoʊ koʊ/

Locofocos is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in locofocos (ccfloooos).

Definitions for locofocos

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) a member of the radical faction of the New York City Democrats, organized in 1835 to oppose the conservative members of the party.
2. (lowercase) a friction match or cigar developed in the 19th century, ignited by rubbing against any hard, dry surface.

Origin of locofocos

special use of locofoco (cigar), self-lighting, rhyming compound apparently based on loco(motive), taken to mean self-moving; -foco, alteration of Italian fuoco

Examples for locofocos

But now, should you go thither to seek him, you would inquire in vain for the Locofoco Surveyor.

A Locofoco is the only intelligible term: a fellow that would set any place on fire to roast his own eggs.

Four or five years afterward their enemies invented for their benefit the meaningless and hideous word "Locofoco."

You would find a Locofoco majority as much addicted to Class Legislation as a factitious aristocracy.