paisano

noun /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/

1. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.

2. A roadrunner.

   Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

Where it comes from

From Spanish paisano. Doublet of peasant.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry paisano (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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