churro
English
![](Images/wiktionary/Chocolate_with_churros.jpg.webp)
churros with chocolate
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish churro.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʊɹ.oʊ/, /ˈt͡ʃɜɹ.oʊ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʃʊɹ.əʊ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
churro (plural churros)
- A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.
Translations
fried pastry
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Further reading
churro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish churro.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.hu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.χu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁo/ [ˈʃu.ho]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/
Noun
churro m (plural churros)
- churro (type of fried pastry)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃuro/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ro]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -uro
- Syllabification: chu‧rro
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic of the sound of something frying.
Noun
churro m (plural churros)
- churro (type of fried pastry)
- Synonyms: cohombro, taco, (Seville, Huelva) calentito, (Jaén) tallo, (Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Badajoz) tejeringo, (Córdoba) jeringo, (Madrid) porra
- (colloquial) joint (marijuana cigarette)
- Synonyms: canuto, porro
- (colloquial) botch, mess, disaster
- Synonyms: chafa, chapuza, pifia
Derived terms
- churrascar
- churrasco
- churrera
- churrería
- churrero
- churrito
- cortachurros
- irse a freír churros
- mezclar churras y merinas
- vender como churros
Descendants
- → Catalan: xurro
- → English: churro
- → Portuguese: churro
Etymology 2
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Adjective
churro (feminine churra, masculine plural churros, feminine plural churras)
- (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, of a person) attractive
Noun
churro m (plural churros)
- (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia) spunk, Adonis, beefcake (physically desirable man)
- Synonyms: guapo, guaperas, guapetón, mino
Further reading
- “churro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014