pejorative term for Spaniard, European (see Karttunen)
Cachopopin [probably with the extra syllable as an error] is attested in seventeenth-century annals. Townsend points out that it may have been a translation back from the Spanish, gachupín.
Cachopin is translated in a late eighteenth-century dictionary as: "a name by which the Indians of Mexico call an European."
The seventeenth century Casas Cachupines of New Mexico—and the Velez Cachupín family living there in the eighteenth century—may coincide with a mention in Cervantes' Don Quixote to the Cachopin (or Cachupin) family.
Don Tomás Velez Cachupín became an official entrusted with Viceroy Juan Francisco de Güemes' stables in 1746 and was interim governor of New Mexico in 1749.