jefe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Antonio Rivera Cabezas was chosen vice-jefe in March 1830."
- "before he stepped forward uttering the stereotyped greeting, the Texan had put him down as the jefe or head man.... Snatching up the rifle he lit out after the jefe, who had left two jumps ahead of the smoke."
- "Hilario Saño, a suspect, resident here but much doubted by the jefe local, was put to the test"
- "“They ain’t going to deliver the cattle across.... They’ve taken too much of a beating as it is. They’ve lost their big jefe and lots of men.”"
- "When they were slacking off in the mine, for example, and a jefe arrived unexpectedly, they shouted loro (parrot) or fuego (fire) as warning signals."
- "A jefe in this sense is a mentor, a person who is often a compadre of the migrant.... In any case, a jefe is not a loan shark"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French