Mexican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈmɛksək(ə)n/
note: US, Non-Standard
ipa: /ˈmɛksəkɪn/
Forms: form: Mexicans
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”). By surface analysis, Mexico + -an. Doublet of Mexicano.
Senses: examples: text: Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find the Mexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure?
ref: 1660, Joseph Hall, The Shaking of the Olive-Tree, page 260:
text: Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli
ref: 1677, Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations, pages 255–256:
text: The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.
ref: 1782, review of Storia antica del Messico, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, vol. 54, p. 144
glosses: A Mexica; an Aztec.
examples: text: Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican.
ref: 1856, Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America, volume 2, page 239:
glosses: The Nahuatl language.
examples: text: The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
ref: 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.
ref: 2025 January 28, Michael Rios, Verónica Calderón and Fidel Gutierrez, “‘It’s absurd’: Mexicans mock and shrug off Trump’s order to rename Gulf of Mexico”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.
examples: text: "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly.
ref: 1970, Stan Steiner, La raza: the Mexican Americans, page 224:
text: You really scare me when you speak Mexican.
ref: 1998, Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, Herbert Siguenza, Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy, page 23:
text: I didn't speak much Mexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation.
ref: 2000, Ben K. Green, The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos, page 87:
text: DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talk Mexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank.
ref: 2014, David Ayer, Fury, Columbia Pictures:
glosses: The Mexican dialect of Spanish.
examples: text: Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries."
ref: 2019, Claire Atkinson, “Fox News apologizes for graphic about '3 Mexican countries'”, in NBC News:
text: What kind of Mexican are you?
glosses: A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
glosses: A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).
glosses: A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
examples: text: I'm hungry, want to go out for Mexican?
glosses: Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc.
Synonyms: word: Mexica
word: Aztec
word: el goblino
word: la goblina
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Nahuatl
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Aztec
Derived terms: Messican
Mexamerican
Mexcrement
Mexer
Mexican American
Mexican-American War
Mexican elm
Mexican feather grass
Mexican mud turtle
Mexican orange
Mexican pink
Mexican scammony
Mexican snowball
Mexican star
Mexican sunflower
Mexican War
Mexicoon
Mexicunt
Mexishit
non-union Mexican equivalent
regional Mexican