churro

[ choor-oh; Spanish choor-raw ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Mexican Cooking.

, plural chur·ros [choor, -ohz, choor, -, r, aws].

a long, slender, deep-fried pastry resembling a cruller.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of churro¹

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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Example Sentences

This year there were no churros, none of the freedom to explore on their own, and no señoras to iron their underwear.

From MIT Technology Review

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

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Lester stood among them, eating a churro in a piece of wax-paper.

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