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The word gabacho originated in Peninsular Spain as a derogatory term for French people and things, and in contemporary usage the term retains the initial meaning. However, in other Hispanophone countries, the word gabacho acquired a meaning similar to the word guiri (a slur for light-skinned foreign tourists) in Spain.
In the Philippines, which historically had almost no contact with the Atlantic slave trade, the Spanish-derived term negro (feminine negra) is still commonly used to refer to black people, as well as to people with dark-colored skin (both native and foreign). As in Spanish usage, it has no negative connotations when referring to black people ...
(UK & North America) referring to people with extremely dark skin Coal (UK) referring to people of Arabic origin, similar to "Paki", coincides with "Coal Mine" which means "Paki Country". Coal Burner (U.S.) a white woman who has sex with black men. Coal Smoker (U.S.) a white woman who enjoys giving fellatio to young black men. Cochise
The most common way to refer to a pimp in Spanish is by using the term chulo as a noun. In some countries, chulo can be used as an adjective somewhat equivalent to "cool" ( Ese hombre es un chulo = "That man is a pimp" versus Ese libro es chulo = "That book is cool").
The word Negrito, the Spanish diminutive of negro, is used to mean "little black person."This usage was coined by 16th-century Spanish missionaries operating in the Philippines, and was borrowed by other European travellers and colonialists across Austronesia to label various peoples perceived as sharing relatively small physical stature and dark skin. [1]
The term's use to describe a caste is first recorded in a Peruvian book published in 1609 and 1616, the Comentarios Reales de los Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. He writes (in Spanish), "The child of a Black male and an Indian female, or of an Indian male and Black female, they call mulato and mulata. The children of these they call cholos.
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Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of African and Native American ancestry. After the Civil War , during and after the Jim Crow era the term was used in conversation, print advertising and household items as a pejorative descriptor for black people .