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6-letter words (1 found)

PONCHO,

5-letter words (3 found)

CHOON,PHONO,POOCH,

4-letter words (12 found)

CHON,CHOP,COHO,COON,COOP,HOON,HOOP,NOOP,PHON,POCO,POOH,POON,

3-letter words (18 found)

CON,COO,COP,HOC,HON,HOO,HOP,NOH,NOO,OCH,OHO,ONO,OOH,OON,OOP,PHO,POH,POO,

2-letter words (8 found)

CH,HO,NO,OH,ON,OO,OP,PO,

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Definitions and meaning of poncho

poncho

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒn.tʃəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɑn.t͡ʃoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒntʃəʊ

Noun

poncho (plural ponchos or ponchoes)

  1. A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
  2. A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
    • 1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
    • I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
    • 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59:
      […] when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ̃.ʃo/

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

  1. poncho

Further reading

  • “poncho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

poncho

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ポンチョ (poncho)

Karao

Noun

poncho

  1. money collected for a common purpose

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔn.t͡ʂɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔnt͡ʂɔ
  • Syllabification: pon‧cho

Noun

poncho n

  1. Alternative spelling of ponczo

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

  • poncho in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • poncho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pon‧cho

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

  1. poncho

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho.

Noun

poncho n (plural ponchouri)

  1. poncho

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpont͡ʃo/ [ˈpõnʲ.t͡ʃo]
  • Rhymes: -ontʃo
  • Syllabification: pon‧cho

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua punchu.

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

  1. poncho
    Synonym: manta
Descendants
  • → Catalan: ponxo
  • → English: poncho
  • → Portuguese: poncho
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

poncho

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ponchar

Further reading

  • “poncho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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