Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jagunço

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ja-gun-co
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.

Example Sentences

"Maria Quadrado, Alexandrinha Correa, and Gertrudes […] went around placing the dead bodies of jagunços in hammock litters so that they could be carried back to Canudos to be buried."
"Though the government forces carried modern rifles against their one-shot muskets and scraping knives, the jagunços repelled first a detachment of a hundred men and then a detachment of five hundred."

Etymology

From Portuguese jagunço.

Origin

Source language: Portuguese

Word Breakdown

Root: jagunço

Inflected Forms

jagunços (plural)

Questions

What does jagunço mean?: A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
Where does jagunço come from?: It is traced to Portuguese.

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