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Mexican

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See also:mexicanandMexičan

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmexicano, fromNahuatlmēxihcah plural ofmēxihcatl(“aMexica”) +-ano(“-an”). Bysurface analysis,Mexico +‎-an.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Mexican (pluralMexicans)

  1. (obsolete) AMexica; anAztec.
    • 1660,Joseph Hall,The Shaking of the Olive-Tree, page260:
      Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find theMexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure?
    • 1677, Richard Gilpin,Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations, pages255–256:
      Not unlike to this were thoſemorſels of Paſte, which theMexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called themthe Fleſh and Bones of their GodVitziliputzli
    • 1782, review ofStoria antica del Messico, inThe Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, vol. 54, p. 144
      The Aztecheſe, orMexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.
  2. (obsolete) TheNahuatl language.
    • 1856, Arthur Helps,The Spanish Conquest in America, volume 2, page239:
      Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speakMexican.
  3. A person from thecountry ofMexico or of Mexicandescent.
    • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      TheMexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
    • 2025 January 28, Michael Rios, Verónica Calderón and Fidel Gutierrez, “‘It’s absurd’: Mexicans mock and shrug off Trump’s order to rename Gulf of Mexico”, inCNN‎[2]:
      When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, manyMexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.
  4. The Mexican dialect ofSpanish.
    • 1970, Stan Steiner,La raza: the Mexican Americans, page224:
      "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speakMexican fluently," he says disarmingly.
    • 1998, Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, Herbert Siguenza,Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy,page23:
      You really scare me when you speakMexican.
    • 2000, Ben K. Green,The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos, page87:
      I didn't speak muchMexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation.
    • 2014, David Ayer,Fury, Columbia Pictures:
      DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talkMexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank.
  5. (US,slang,offensive) A person from, or ofdescent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
    • 2019, Claire Atkinson, “Fox News apologizes for graphic about '3 Mexican countries'”, inNBC News‎[3]:
      Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "threeMexican countries."
    What kind ofMexican are you?
  6. (Australia,slang, chieflyNew South Wales,Queensland) AVictorian (a person from the state of Victoria).
  7. (Australia,slang,Queensland) A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
  8. (uncountable) Mexican or Mexican-derivedcuisine; whether traditional Mexican food orTex-Mex, etc.
    I'm hungry, want to go out forMexican?

Synonyms

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Translations

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Mexica—seeMexica
Nahuatl language—seeNahuatl
person from Mexico or of Mexican descent
Mexican dialect of Spanish—seeMexican Spanish
person of any Spanish-speaking country

Adjective

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Mexican (comparativemoreMexican,superlativemostMexican)

  1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to theMexica people.
  2. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to theNahuatl language.
    • 1795, W. Winterbotham,An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, volume 4, page87:
      The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in theMexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte.
    • 1810, review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", inThe Eclectic Review
      The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec orMexican.
  3. Of, from, or pertaining to the country ofMexico.

Synonyms

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Translations

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of or pertaining to the Mexica people—seeMexica
of or pertaining to Nahuatl language—seeNahuatl
of or pertaining to Mexico
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