Cuyano: a native of the Argentine. Properly, applied to one born in the old province of Cuyo, formerly including the then Chilean provinces of Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis, but used familiarly of any one born in Argentina.
Despacho: shop or store on an estate or mine where goods are sold to employés.
Empanada: a paté, filled with chopped meat, onions, gravy, etc., and served hot.
Estrada: raised bench generally built across the end of a living room, used in colonial days as a seat for all the ladies of the family.
Fernandecino (a): native of the Juan Fernandez group of islands.
Floripondio: large white pendant flowers of the Datura arborea, growing as a fairly large tree in Chile. Infusions yield the huanto, a drugging drink used in regions of Quechua influence by witch-doctors to obtain insensibility and visions; huanto is similar in effect to the natema of Amazonian headwaters; caapi of Eastern Ecuador, and ayahuasca of Peru.
Fundo: a general farm. Fundo de rulo, a non-irrigated farm.
Futre: a pretentious person; in copper mines, a ghost or imp.
Garúa: fine rain, like a “Scotch mist” (North).
Guachuchero: a liquor-smuggler (mining regions).