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charro (CHAHR-roh) - n., a traditional horseman from central and northern Mexico.
Not to be confused with a vaquero (cowboy) or ranchero (rancher), who are horsemen from other regions. Traditional charros wear distinctive colorful clothing and participate in the charreada or corrida rodeo. Although the root of the term in Mexican Spanish is Basque txarro, bad person, from txar, weak, poor, in Mexico the term is not an insult but descriptive -- but in some Latin American dialects, charro/charra is derogatory in senses clearly related to the root, but I can't at the moment tell whether this is derived from the Mexican use or independently straight from the root.
Not to be confused with Charo.
---L.
Not to be confused with a vaquero (cowboy) or ranchero (rancher), who are horsemen from other regions. Traditional charros wear distinctive colorful clothing and participate in the charreada or corrida rodeo. Although the root of the term in Mexican Spanish is Basque txarro, bad person, from txar, weak, poor, in Mexico the term is not an insult but descriptive -- but in some Latin American dialects, charro/charra is derogatory in senses clearly related to the root, but I can't at the moment tell whether this is derived from the Mexican use or independently straight from the root.
Not to be confused with Charo.
---L.
