Indian vs Paisano - What's the difference?
indian | paisano |
Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
(obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 10:
(dated) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
(North America) Of foods: made with Indian corn or maize.
(chess) Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
A person from India.
A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
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(UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
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.
As nouns the difference between indian and paisano
is that indian is a person from India while paisano is peasant; rustic.As an adjective Indian
is of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.As a proper noun Indian
is any language spoken by Indians.indian
English
Adjective
(-)- The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre .
- Indian''' bread; '''Indian meal
Synonyms
* (of or or relating to India or its people) (l), (l) * (of or related to indigenous peoples of the Americas) (l), (l), (l) (chiefly Canadian), (l)Derived terms
* Amerindian (American Indian) * Hindian (Asian Indian) * Indian clover * Indian elephant * Indian file * Indian giving * Indian Ocean * Indian red * Indian sign * Indian style * Indian sunburn * Indian tea * too many chiefs and not enough Indians *Noun
(en noun)- We're going out tonight for an Indian .