Meaning of Mexican | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Mexica; an Aztec.
   obsolete
2. Mexican (native or pertaining to the country of the United Mexican States: compare mexiquense)
3. The Nahuatl language.
   obsolete
4. Mexican (pertaining to the Mexican language, i.e. Nahuatl)
5. A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.
6. Mexican (an inhabitant of the country of Mexico)
7. The Mexican dialect of Spanish.
8. Mexican (the Mexican language, i.e. Nahuatl)
9. A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
   US, offensive, slang
10. A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).
    Australia, New-South-Wales, slang
11. A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
    Australia, slang
12. Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc.
    uncountable

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Examples

“Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find the Mexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure?”

“Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli”

“The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.”

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

“The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.”

“When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.”

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

“You really scare me when you speak Mexican.”

“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.”

“DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talk Mexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank.”

“Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries."”

“What kind of Mexican are you?”

“I'm hungry, want to go out for Mexican?”

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