hombre

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɒmbɹeɪ/
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/ˈɒmbɹeɪ/ · /-bɹi/ · /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/ · /ˈʌmbɹeɪ/

Definition of hombre

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, slang)A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
    “[W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!”
    “That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!”
    “Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen.”
    “The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.”
    “There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.

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