Span·glish | \ ˈspaŋ-glish 
, -lish \
, -lish \Definition of Spanglish
: Spanish marked by numerous borrowings from English broadly : any of various combinations of Spanish and English
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Spanglish
nounEnglish Language Learners Definition of Spanglish
chiefly US : Spanish that includes the use of English words
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The first known use of Spanglish was in 1958
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