Borrowed fromSpanishmochila.Doublet ofmacheer.
mochila (pluralmochilas)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“mochila”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
Borrowed fromSpanishmochila,[1] frommochil(“messenger, letter carrier”), fromBasquemotxil, diminutive form ofmotil(“boy”).
Frommochil(“errand boy”),borrowed fromBasquemotxil, diminutive form ofmotil,mutil(“boy”).
