7 January 2019

paisano

[pahy-sah-noh, -zah-; Spanish pahy-sah-naw]

noun, plural pai·sa·nos [pahy-sah-nohz, -zah-; Spanish pahy-sah-naws] /paɪˈsɑ noʊz, -ˈzɑ-; Spanish paɪˈsɑ nɔs/.
paisan.

Southwestern U.S.

a rustic or peasant.
a roadrunner.

Origin of paisano

1835–45, Americanism; Spanish; French paysan. See peasant

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Examples from the Web for paisano

Historical Examples

We got rid of our paisano with difficulty, and only under a promise to visit his chacra, somewhere in the vicinity, next morning.
Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860
Various

They received the usual frank welcome of a paisano, and were told to dismount and unsaddle.
Ponce de Leon
William Pilling

Their cabalistic watchword was “Paisano” (fellow-countryman), their battle cry “Independence.”
The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912
James H. Blount

Sick with expectancy of the news he feared, he rode up, dismounted, and dropped Paisano’s reins.
Heart of the West
O. Henry

Today’s quote

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves.

— Anne Frank

On this day

7 January – Christmas Day celebrated by some eastern and Orthodox churches, which is 25 December under the old Julian calendar. Most western churches celebrate Christmas on 25 December in the Gregorian calendar system which began replacing the Julian calendar throughout the world from 1582.

7 January 1943 – Death of Nikola Tesla, Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist. Inventor of alternating current (A/C) electricity supply. Born 10 July 1856.

7 January 1979 – Brutal Cambodian dictator, Pol Pot, is overthrown as Vietnamese forces invade Phnom Penh. Pol Pot and his army, the Khmer Rouge, were responsible for killing approximately 1.7 million people.