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charnego

charnego

Spanish

Noun

charnego m ‎(plural charnegos, feminine charnega)

  1. (often derogatory, Catalonia) A person who is half Catalan and half from another ethnolinguistic group.
  2. (often derogatory, Catalonia) A Spanish person who lives in Catalonia but immigrated from another part of Spain and cannot speak Catalan.

Etymology

From lucharniego or nocharniego ‎(“nocturnal”), applied to greyhounds. Compare Catalan xarnego/xarnec.

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