| 释义 |
‖ pachuco|pəˈtʃʊkəʊ|
[a. Mexican Sp. pachuco flashily dressed, vulgar.]
A juvenile deliquent of Mexican-American descent, esp. in the Los Angeles area; in extended use, a derogatory term for any Mexican-American. Also attrib.
1943C. Himes in Crisis July 200/1 Pachuo is a Mexican expression which originally meant ‘bandit’ but has degenerated by usage into a description of a juvenile delinquent... In Mexican districts in the county of Los Angeles, small bands of pachuos have organized into gangs to fight each other. 1944Time 10 July 26/2 Pachuco... Mexican for zootsuiter. 1946C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 256 Some pachuco kids were ganged about the juke box, talking in Mex. 1947Common Ground Summer 79/1 The Pachuco dialect is a mélange composed of Caló, Hispanicized English, Anglicized Spanish, and words of pure invention. 1950G. C. Barker (title) Pachuco: An American-Spanish argot and its social function in Tucson, Arizona. Ibid. (1958) i. 13 In many cities of the American Southwest there are today Mexican-American boys who are known..as pachucos. These boys..may be distinguished by certain peculiar characteristics of dress, behavior, and language. 1954J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday 11 In Los Angeles..he led a gang of pachucos. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 11 Hostile Pachuco dialect, full of chingas and maricones. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) v. 70 ‘Órale, panzón,’ he said, like a pachuco, which he put on for me. He spoke beautiful Spanish..but the barrios of El Paso Texas died hard. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 294 Pachuco, also known as tirilí, tirilongo, is used not only by felons, delinquents,..and others outside respectable society, but also by younger males throughout the Southwest as a street variety and for its slangy effect. |