pinole

From Mexican Spanish pinole, from Classical Nahuatl pinolli (“flour, ground maize or chia”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /piːˈnəʊleɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pi.ˈnoʊleɪ/

pinole (countable and uncountable, plural pinoles)

1. A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.
   • 2009 February 11, Melissa Clark, “Third Time’s the Charm, Valentine”, in New York Times‎:

     But all of them also called for obscure ingredients — whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole, for example.

• Leipon, Pelion, pile on, pile-on

• pinol (Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl pinolli (“flour, ground maize or chia”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈnole/ [piˈno.le]
• Rhymes: -ole
• Syllabification: pi‧no‧le

pinole m (uncountable)

1. (Latin America) pinole

• “pinole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014