diego

A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.

Noun

  1. A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.
    • They're just like Ludds, them diegos — nothing but a load of scum. I've seen 'ow they live. O' course, we soldiers dwell in mud 'alf the time, but that's different. We're building an empire. But them diegos! Them...
    • "... Around twenty years old and pretty tall for a diego, maybe five-seven or five-eight." / "A diego?" Armand said. "He's a diego?" / "From Napoli." - 1985, Robert Anton Wilson, The Widow's Son (The Historical...
    • Now I don't know what it is with the diegos, but as we were walking back to the hotel a couple of them started giving us a bit of verbals. - 2009, Mickey Smith, For The Claret & Blue:

Origin

From Spanish Diego.

Forms

diegos

Derived

dago