Lunfardo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Spanish argot that developed at the end of the nineteenth century among the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Word forms

Lunfardo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lunfardo, probably from an alteration of lombardo.

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