menudo

[ muh-noo-doh; Spanish me-noo-thaw ]

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noun

a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chiles, and hominy.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1900–05; from Mexican Spanish; compare Spanish menudos “giblets, innards,” noun use of menudo “small, insignificant,” from Latin minūtus; minute ², menu

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Example Sentences

In Mexico the cow stomach concoction is called menudo and is made with garlic and onion.

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Others were thrown into barrels of acid and dissolved into stew, menudo as some called it.

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A menudo es un colono nuevo, un empleado o un agente comercial.

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Pero Mara, la esposa, era muy inteligente y a menudo remediaba las tonteras que haba hecho su marido.

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