Conchoprimo
Conchoprimo or Concho Primo is a stereotype of peasant guerilla leaders in Dominican Republic{{ill|Carlos Esteban Deive|es}}, Diccionario de dominicanismos, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tLTyydkMtrIC&pg=PA61 p.61] who took part in numerous uprisings. Conchoprimo is viewed as a historical national personification of the Dominican Republic. His canonical image, in peasant clothes with an accordion and a machete, was created by the cartoonist Bienvenido Gimbernard in 1919.{{ill|Pablo Gómez Borbón|es|Pablo Gómez Borbón}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816173722/http://acento.com.do/2014/opinion/editorial/8169836-una-nacion-en-busqueda-de-un-personaje-que-la-represente Una nación en búsqueda de un personaje que la represente]
Some Spanish dictionaries define 'conchoprimo' as "a character typical of the Montonero revolutions, who participated in armed uprisings."[https://www.asale.org/damer/conchoprimo conchoprimo] Accordingly, the period at the beginning of the 20th century until the American intervention in 1916 is called "the era of Concho Primo" or the era of "machete generals",[https://hoy.com.do/la-funenda-el-libro-que-rezuma-dominicanidad/ La Fuñenda: El libro que rezuma dominicanidad]Andrés L. Mateo, Mito y cultura en la era de Trujillo, footnote 27 at [https://books.google.com/books?id=B5iyGYvsd1kC&pg=PA129 p. 129] and the corresponding chaotic political situation is called conchoprimismo.[https://dle.rae.es/conchoprimismo conchoprimismo]
The origin of the name is uncertain. There are various stories when a purported "conchoprimo" uttered in a bewilderment: "Concho, primo!". In this context, "concho" is a minced alteration of an expletive interjection "coño", i.e., "cunt"{{efn|In Dominican Republic "concho!" is used to variously express admiration, astonishment, strangeness or pain ("admiracion, asombro, extraneza o dolor")}} and primo means "cousin" (which may also be used as an address of familiarity, like "compay" or "bro"Sydney Hutchinson, Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2wAXDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 p. 32]), i.e., the expression may be translated as "Damn, cousin!" or "Damn, bro!".
During the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo many songs were dedicated to Concho Primo, and in remembrance of his accordion, a single-row diatonic-button accordion is called Concho Primo by some Dominicans.Sydney Hutchinson, Focus: Music of the Caribbean, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x0W4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91 p. 91]
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