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chur⋅ro

[choor-oh; Sp. choor-raw]
–noun, plural chur⋅ros [choor-ohz; Sp. choor-raws] . Mexican Cookery.
a long, slender, deep-fried pastry resembling a cruller.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; < Sp, perh. after dial. churro name for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Valencia (lit., a kind of coarse-wooled sheep), the approximate area where the pastry originated
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chur·ro   (chŏŏr'ō)   
n.   pl. chur·ros
A thick coiled fritter of fried dough.

[Spanish, perhaps from dialectal xurro, dirty, Valencian.]
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