Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1930s
Cojones
from cojones
- Meaning
- Testicles — colloquially courage, audacity.
- Source word
- cojones
- Route into English
- Spanish vulgarity → Hemingway's 1932 "Death in the Afternoon" → general English.
- Arrived
- 1930s
From Spanish
American Spanish, not peninsular Spanish, provided most of the modern loanwords — through US expansion westward and Latin American trade.
English borrows.
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