Gachupín is a Spanish-language term derived from a noble surname of northern Spain, the Cachopín of Laredo (present-day Cantabria).
It was popularized during the Spanish Golden Age as a stereotype and literary stock character representing the hidalgo (petty nobility) class which was characterized as arrogant and overbearing.
"[1] Since the 1780 edition, the academic dictionary, recognizes the variant beginning with the letter "g" understood to have arisen in the New World: "In The Indies, where they say gachupín" [2] or "godo".
[5] In 1992, Antonio Alatorre explained that Jorge de Montemayor coined the term in 1557 in his pastoral work La Diana.
In the 19th century it was used in pro-independence slogans such as Mueran los gachupines ("Death to the peninsulares") as part of one version of Miguel Hidalgo's Cry of Dolores.