Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boricua

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: boricua
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

American usage; Colloquial

noun

A Puerto Rican.

American usage; Colloquial

adj

Alternative letter-case form of boricua.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of boricua.

Example Sentences

"She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children."
"After […] the war ended, and on through the postwar years and into the fifties—during the great waves of Boricua migration to New York—Thomas Painter developed a particular admiration for Puerto Ricans."

Etymology

From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

Word Breakdown

Root: boricua, *borīkē

Usage

American usage
Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more boricua (comparative) most boricua (superlative) boricuas (plural)

Questions

What does boricua mean?: Puerto Rican.
Where does boricua come from?: From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

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