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po·chis·mo | \ pōˈchēz(ˌ)mō \
plural -s
Definition of pochismo
1 : a term of U.S. origin borrowed into Mexican Spanish and used along the border between the U.S. and Mexico especially by U.S.-born Mexicans
not a single pochismo has added to the beauty of our Spanish language— F. G. Beraza
2 : a vocabulary consisting of pochismos
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