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单词 tex-mex
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Tex-Mexadj.n.

/ˈtɛksmɛks/
Etymology: < Tex- (in Texan adj. and n.) + Mex- (in Mexican n. and adj.): compare Tex n.1 and Mex n. and adj.
A. adj.
Designating the Texan variety of something Mexican; also occasionally, of or pertaining to both Texas and Mexico.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > others
Carolinian1705
Georgian1740
Missourian1761
Alaskian1788
Vermontese1798
Alaskan1807
Michigan1814
Russo-American1814
Illinoian1818
Mississippian1819
Middle Atlantic1826
New Mexican1834
Louisianian1835
Texian1835
Oregonian1850
Texan1852
Nebraskan1853
Tennessean1853
Ozark1856
Dakotan1874
Kansan1894
Ozarkian1906
Tex-Mex1949
Texican1982
1949 Time 14 Feb. 38/1 Fluent in Texmex Spanish, he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz... The half English, half Spanish patois of the U.S.-Mexican border region.
1973 News (Mexico City) 22 July (Vistas Suppl.) 7 It is a mistake to come to Mexico and not try the local cuisine. It is not the Tex-Mex cooking that one is used to getting in the United States.
1976 M. Machlin Pipeline xx. 246 The voice of Miss Martinez, one of Wilbur's gestures toward Tex-Mex integration, came softly over the intercom.
1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 8/2 Cooder's current concern is the music of Southern Texas, the ‘Tex-Mex’ style.
B. n.
The Texan variety of Mexican Spanish.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Spanish > Spanish-American
spiggoty1922
pochismo1944
Tex-Mex1955
1955 W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West vii. 211 Northern cowboys had their chance to mess up Spanish even more than had the Texas cowhands, with their Tex-Mex, which, incidentally, is a language in itself.
1969 J. Mander Static Society i. 32 A hybrid, like the ‘Tex-Mex’ spoken in the south-west of the United States.
1981 Verbatim Spring 24/1 The only foreign language she knows is Tex-Mex.

Draft additions April 2004

Also Texmex. A Texan style of cooking using Mexican ingredients, and characterized by the adaptation of Mexican dishes, frequently with more moderate use of hot flavourings such as chilli; food cooked in this style.
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1963 N.Y. Times Mag. 11 Aug. 50/1 Star of the evening was her Texas or Tex-Mex chili.
1966 Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 19 Oct. 5/4 It's too bad that it has become known as ‘chilli powder’ because some homemakers may associate it only with the preparation of ‘Tex-Mex’ dishes.
1988 Independent 4 Aug. 20/5 We..eat Texmex, half steaks and salad and ice-cream, and half..cheese and tortillas.
1993 T. Watada in E. Philips & G. Ursell Grain Fall (1993) 64 Once the cheque from Alex's office cleared, we ate nothing but Tex-Mex.
2000 B. Geddes World Food: Mexico 26 At one time, much of present day US was part of Mexico. This included the states of California and Texas which explains the presence or restaurants on both sides of the border offering cooking styles known as Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex.
Also tex-mex. A broad genre of folk and popular music associated with Mexican-American inhabitants of Texas, characterized by use of the accordion and guitar, and often incorporating elements of Czech and German dance music; (occasionally) spec. the more traditional form of this music, typically played by small dance bands, and more recently by rock and blues-influenced performers, as distinguished from a modern, more commercial form strongly influenced by pop and jazz. Cf. Tejano n. and adj. and musica norteña n.
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soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
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folk-rock1963
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easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
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world music1969
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rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
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New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
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rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
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hip-house1987
new school1987
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thrashcore1987
acid1988
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dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
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1968 Rolling Stone 7 Dec. 19/3 To find the derivation of Tex-Mex as a rock word though, we have to go clear up to the Panhandle.
1977 Washington Post 22 May (Mag.) 49 Five stages will hold groups of various musical persuasions: blues, tex-mex, old-time, country, gospel, balladeers, bluegrass, [etc.].
1991 Sassy Aug. 40/2 There are also nods to semi-obscure rockabilly, surf, garage, Tex-Mex and psychedelia of days past.
2003 Rolling Stone 21 Aug. 76/2 The Garza brothers, of San Angelo, Texas, sound like they can fire up some mean Tex-Mex, country blues and Fifties rock in their sleep.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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