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noun, plural -chos.
a blanketlike cloak with a hole in the center to admit the head, originating in South America, now often worn as a raincoat.
Origin:
1710–20; < American Spanish < Araucanian
1710–20; < American Spanish < Araucanian
Related forms
pon·choed, adjective
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Ponchos
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
poncho
S.Amer. cloak, 1717, from Amer.Sp. poncho, from Araucanian (Chile) pontho "woolen fabric," perhaps infl. by Sp. poncho (adj.), variant of pocho "discolored, faded."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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