churro

English
churros with chocolate

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʊɹ.oʊ/, /ˈt͡ʃɜɹ.oʊ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʃʊɹ.əʊ/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

churro (plural churros)

  1. A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.

Translations

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.hu]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.χu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁo/ [ˈʃu.ho]
 

  • Rhymes: -uʁu
  • Hyphenation: chur‧ro

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

  1. churro (type of fried pastry)

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃuro/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ro]
  • (Castilian)
    Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uro
  • Syllabification: chu‧rro

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic of the sound of something frying.

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

  1. churro (type of fried pastry)
    Synonyms: cohombro, taco, (Seville, Huelva) calentito, (Jaén) tallo, (Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Badajoz) tejeringo, (Córdoba) jeringo, (Madrid) porra
  2. (colloquial) joint (marijuana cigarette)
    Synonyms: canuto, porro
  3. (colloquial) botch, mess, disaster
    Synonyms: chafa, chapuza, pifia
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Catalan: xurro
  • → English: churro
  • → Portuguese: churro

Etymology 2

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Adjective

churro (feminine churra, masculine plural churros, feminine plural churras)

  1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, of a person) attractive

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

  1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia) spunk, Adonis, beefcake (physically desirable man)
    Synonyms: guapo, guaperas, guapetón, mino

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