Guagua: a baby (Araucanian Indian).
Guaira, guairachina: little smelters built on hilltop to catch the breeze.
Gualcacho: (Araucanian) plant yielding a small native grain similar to but more delicate than maize.
Gualhue: (Araucanian) damp ground, usually near a river, suitable for maize cultivation.
Guanaco: ruminant quadruped, still found in considerable numbers in the wild mountainous regions, all the way from the Bolivian border to Tierra del Fuego. Rugs and coverings made of the thick tawny hair, and the flesh eaten by Indians. In Ch. slang, a “guanaco” is a country bumpkin, a “hayseed.”
Guaso, huaso: a cowboy (Central Chile).
Guemul, huemul: the native deer of Chilean woodland.
Hacer-se Sueco: to be unintelligible.
Huacho: properly, a motherless calf, but applied to any waif.
Huasca: a whip: originally applied to a supple creeper or liana of the forests, used as a cord or thong.