Chileanism

English

Etymology

• Chilean +‎ -ism

Noun

Chileanism (countable and uncountable, plural Chileanisms)

1. A term or linguistic feature originating from or specific to the Chilean variety of the Spanish language.
   • 1918 May, Julio Noé, “Sarmiento the Traveler”, in Revista de Filosofia‎^[1], Buenos Aires, Argentina; republished as Inter-América, volume 4, number 3, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921 February, page 141:

     Chinanga is, according to Román's Diccionario de chilenismos, not so much a Chileanism as an Americanism, since he credits it to Chile, Perú and Ecuador: it is equivalent to the Spanish taberna, but enlivened with song and dance.

   • 1977, Arturo Valenzuela, Political brokers in Chile: local government in a centralized polity, Duke University Press, page 240:

     The verb pechar is a Chileanism derived from pecho, or chest, and means to employ much effort to accomplish a particular goal.

   • 1991, Cynthia G. Brown, Human rights and the "politics of agreements": Chile during President Aylwin's first year‎^[2], Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 36:

     Curco is a Chileanism, meaning literally to be bent over with an irritating burden.

2. Chilean nationalism

Translations

term or linguistic feature specific to Chilean Spanish

• Portuguese: chilenismo m
• Spanish: chilenismo (es) m