churro

[ choor-oh; Spanish choor-raw ]

noun,plural chur·ros [choor-ohz; Spanish choor-raws]. /ˈtʃʊər oʊz; Spanish ˈtʃur rɔs/. Mexican Cooking.
  1. a long, slender, deep-fried pastry resembling a cruller.

Origin of churro

1
First recorded in 1925–30; from Spanish, perhaps after dialect churro (a kind of coarse-wooled sheep), the name for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Valencia, the approximate area where the pastry originated

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How to use churro in a sentence

  • I took my churro from the pretty granny and paid her, taking a couple of quick bites of the dough before I turned around.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • Lester stood among them, eating a churro in a piece of wax-paper.

    Makers | Cory Doctorow