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This week's theme: slang/informal terms.

paisano (py-SAH-no) noun

1. A pal, buddy.

2. A fellow countryman; a compatriot.

[From Spanish paisano, from French paysan, from Latin pagus (district). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pag- (to fasten) that is also the source of peace, pacify, pact, travel, compact, pagan, and peasant.]

-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)

"Scott Spinelli has landed another paisano. Michael Smith, a Bronx, N.Y., point guard, signed a national letter of intent to join Nebraska basketball." Dirk Chatelain; NU's Spinelli Gets N.Y. Guard; Omaha World-Herald; May 11, 2005.

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