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Spanglish
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spanglish
English
Etymology
en Spanish English.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Spanglish.wav Southern England
Proper noun
Tonight, we’re eating langosta y mariscos for dinner y después vamos al teatro to see the opera.
¡Él me quiquió! (he kicked me)
no bueno
A language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
en Espanglish espanglés pocho
John McWhorter America Has More Than One Spanglish 2021-11-23 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/spanglish-russian-mandarin.html The Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is said to have had it that Spanglish is “neither good, nor bad, but abominable.” https://web.archive.org/web/20211218102823/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/spanglish-russian-mandarin.html
Joe Coscarelli; Jon Caramanica Rosalía’s Thrilling New Avant-Pop Swerve: Singing in 13 Languages 2025-10-30 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/music/rosalia-lux-interview.html “It’s a lot of trying to understand how other languages work,” Rosalía, 33, said in an interview, conducted in English with a sprinkling of Spanglish, on Popcast, The New York Times’s music show. https://web.archive.org/web/20260201161206/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/music/rosalia-lux-interview.html 1 February 2026
The mixing of Spanish and English together in a sentence.
en His Spanglish was quite embarrassing when he said he was “embarazado”, as that means “pregnant”, not “embarrassed”.
Translations
blend of English and Spanish
Finnish: fi spanglish
French: fr spanglish m
Greek: el ισπανοαγγλικά n-p
Italian: it spanglish
Portuguese: pt espanglês
Russian: ru Портуньол m
Spanish: es espanglish m, es spanglish m, es espanglés m, es ingléspañol
Swedish: sv spangelska c
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en aghilnpss plashings splashing
en Linguistics Spanish English Dialects