bolillo
English
Etymology
From Mexican Spanish bolillo (“bread roll”).
Noun
bolillo (plural bolillos)
- A type of white bread roll from Latin America.
- 2009 August 26, John T. Edge, “In Praise of the All-American Mexican Hot Dog”, in New York Times[1]:
- In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery store hot dog buns.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈliʝo/ [boˈli.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /boˈliʎo/ [boˈli.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /boˈliʃo/ [boˈli.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /boˈliʒo/ [boˈli.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: bo‧li‧llo
Noun
bolillo m (plural bolillos)
- (regional) bread roll
- (El Salvador, Mexico) type of bread
- (regional, derogatory) Caucasian person
- bobbin
- (Cuba, El Salvador) musical drumstick
- (Ecuador) rolling pin
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bolillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024