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Roadrunner vs Paisano - What's the difference?

roadrunner | paisano |

As nouns the difference between roadrunner and paisano

is that roadrunner is either of two species of bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, native to North and Central America. They are fast runners while paisano is peasant; rustic.

roadrunner

English

(wikipedia roadrunner)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Either of two species of bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, native to North and Central America. They are fast runners.

    • 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.

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