buñuelo

[ boon-yoo-ey-loh; Spanish boo-nywe-law ]

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noun

, plural bu·ñu·e·los [boon-yoo-, ey, -lohz, boo-, nywe, -laws].

Mexican Cooking. a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1810–20; from Mexican Spanish, Spanish: “doughnut, fritter”; compare Catalan bunyol “bun,” bony “lump, bulge”; akin to the Romance base of bunion, beignet, bun ¹

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