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gabacho

/ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/

adjective/ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/

Pyrenean; Gallic, frenchified

Borrowed from Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).

noun, masculine/ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/plural: gabachos

a villager from the Pyrenees; a Frenchman, a frog, Frenchy, baguette; a white man of any nation (originally the word for rutabaga); foreigner, gringo, especially from the United States

Synonyms: franchute

Borrowed from Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).