Paisan vs Paisano - What's the difference?
paisan | paisano | Alternative forms |
* 1960 , (Lou Monte), (Dominick the Donkey)
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.
Paisano is a alternative form of paisan.
Paisano is a descendant of paisan.
As nouns the difference between paisan and paisano
is that paisan is alternative form of paisano while paisano is peasant; rustic.paisan
English
(wikipedia paisan)Noun
(en noun)- When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy.
