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Countryman vs Paisano - What's the difference?

countryman | paisano |

As nouns the difference between countryman and paisano

is that countryman is somebody from a certain country while paisano is peasant; rustic.

countryman

English

Noun

(countrymen)
  • Somebody from a certain country.
  • Somebody from one's own country.
  • country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits
  • (Irish, traveller) a settled person, as opposed to a traveller

    • paisano

    English

    (wikipedia paisano)

    Alternative forms

    * paisan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Peasant; rustic
  • One's fellow countryman; compatriot
  • native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry
  • roadrunner
  • *about 1900 , O. Henry,
  • *:Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano , well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

    • Anagrams

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