Adjective: charro
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | charro |
| Singular f. | charra |
| Plural m. | charros |
| Plural f. | charras |
Sample Sentences
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Deus nos dia con que riamos, e non sejan fillos charros (May God give us something to laugh, but that it is not silly children) [1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes en Romance:]
Adjectives inflected like charro
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Unknown. Attested in Galician since circa 1539, earlier than in other Iberian languages, and glossed in Spanish as if the word was then unknown in that language; so, the Basque proposed etymology is unlikely. Compare Asturian charru. See: Asturian Adjectives '
charru'.
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