rasquache
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mexican Spanish rascuache (“poor, coarse or vulgar”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rasquache (comparative more rasquache, superlative most rasquache)
- (US) Having or relating to a do-it-yourself attitude in Chicano culture; able to make something from nothing, or make do with the resources at hand.
Further reading
[edit]- rasquache on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “rasquache”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.