"pocho" meaning in English

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        "lit": "discolored, faded"
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      "name": "bor"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Mexican Spanish pocho (literally “discolored, faded”).",
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    {
      "form": "pochos",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: Chicano"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Chad Richardson, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border, University of Texas Press, page 11",
          "text": "Both often cater to wealthy Mexicans who come to shop, although many of these Mexicans look down their noses at the pochos (assimilated Mexican Americans).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Earl Shorris, Latinos: A Biography of the People, W. W. Norton & Company, page 170",
          "text": "But the pochos needed a gesture, anything, some kind of cultural safe house in which they could rest for a while from the endless war on two fronts.",
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        "A culturally assimilated Mexican-American."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A culturally assimilated Mexican-American."
      ],
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          "ref": "1986, Mexico, Little Brown & Company",
          "text": "But some among their countrymen speak pocho; the descriptive term can be translated literally as “discolored” or “faded.” When used with respect to language, pocho means a slangy mixture of Spanish and English […]",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2000, Mario T. García, Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography, University of Texas Press, page 106",
          "text": "I especially appreciated how Villarreal changed the word pocho from a negative to a positive. The young protagonist, Richard Rubio, says, “I'm a pocho, I speak pocho, and I'm proud of it.”",
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        }
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        "(informal, uncountable) Spanglish"
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        "informal",
        "uncountable"
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  "word": "pocho"
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      "name": "bor"
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          "text": "Coordinate term: Chicano"
        },
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          "text": "Both often cater to wealthy Mexicans who come to shop, although many of these Mexicans look down their noses at the pochos (assimilated Mexican Americans).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Earl Shorris, Latinos: A Biography of the People, W. W. Norton & Company, page 170",
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      ],
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        "A culturally assimilated Mexican-American."
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mario T. García, Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography, University of Texas Press, page 106",
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        "(informal, uncountable) Spanglish"
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  "word": "pocho"
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