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English
Etymology
From Portuguese jagunço.
Noun
jagunço (plural jagunços)
- A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 85:Maria Quadrado, Alexandrinha Correa, and Gertrudes […] went around placing the dead bodies of jagunços in hammock litters so that they could be carried back to Canudos to be buried.
2016, Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires:Though the government forces carried modern rifles against their one-shot muskets and scraping knives, the jagunços repelled first a detachment of a hundred men and then a detachment of five hundred.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
jagunço m (plural jagunços)
- (Brazil) bodyguard; thug, hoodlum; jagunço
- Synonyms: capanga, caceteiro
- hitman, contract killer (man hired to kill)
- scamp, rascal
- a blade traditionally used as a weapon in Bahia and Pernambuco