boricua
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boricua¹
Where it comes from
From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
adjective more boricua · most boricua · Boricua
- Puerto Rican. She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.
noun boricuas · Boricua
- A Puerto Rican.
Boricua²
adjective more Boricua · most Boricua
- Alternative letter-case form of boricua After […] the war ended, and on through the postwar years and into the fifties—during the great waves of Boricua migration to New York—Thomas Painter developed a particular admiration for Puerto Ricans.
noun Boricuas
- Alternative letter-case form of boricua
Talk about this word "boricua." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/boricua. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. boricua. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/boricua "boricua." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/boricua.
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@misc{boricua_2026,
title = {boricua},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boricua},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
