bachatero

English

Etymology

From Spanish bachatero.

Noun

bachatero (plural bachateros)

1. A singer of bachata music.
   • 2007 September 4, Michiko Kakutani, “Travails of an Outcast”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Oscar, Mr. Díaz’s homely homeboy hero, is “not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about — he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy” with a million hot girls on the line.

Spanish

Etymology

From bachata +‎ -ero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat͡ʃaˈteɾo/ [ba.t͡ʃaˈt̪e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ba‧cha‧te‧ro

Noun

bachatero m (plural bachateros, feminine bachatera, feminine plural bachateras)

1. bachatero

Further reading

• “bachatero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10