Countryman vs Paisano - What's the difference?
countryman | paisano |
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
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.