Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A Mexica; an Aztec.

* 1660: , The Shaking of the Olive-Tree , p. 260

Surely, nature it ?elf calls to us for this re?pect to a deity, even the very ?avage Indians may teach us this point of religion; among?t whom we find the Mexicans , a people that had never had any intercour?e with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ?umptuous, and ?tately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their mi?-called Gods with Magazins of their trea?ure?

* 1677: Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations , pp. 255–256

Not unlike to this were tho?e mor?els'' of Pa?te, which the ''Mexicans'' u?ed in their Religious Fea?ts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, con?ecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them ''the Fle?h and Bones'' of their God ''Vitziliputzli

* 1782: review of Storia antica del Messico'', in ''The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature , vol. 54, p. 144

The Azteche?e, or Mexicans , were the la?t who arrived in Anahuac.

(obsolete) The Nahuatl language.

* 1856: Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America , vol. 2, p. 239

Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican .

A person from Mexico or of Mexican descent.

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(US, slang, offensive) A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.

The Mexican dialect of Spanish.

* 1970 , Stan Steiner, La raza: the Mexican Americans , page 224

"You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly.

* 1998 , Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, Herbert Siguenza, Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy , page 23

You really scare me when you speak Mexican .

* 2000 , Ben K. Green, The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos , page 87

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.

(Australia, slang, Queensland) A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.

Noun

(en noun)

A person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent.

A style of pubic hair removal (shortened form of "Brazilian bikini wax")