chorizo

• choritso, chorizzo (spellings affected by the 'hyper-foreign' pronunciations with /ts/)

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/

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• (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/^[1][2] or like Spanish: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/,^[1][2] /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/^[2]
• (British, Ireland, proscribed) enPR: chəritsō, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/ or /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.

   Synonym: Spanish sausage

   • 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:

     Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.

• chouriço, chaurice

• chorizo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
• “Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/

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chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. chorizo

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.so] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -iθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -iso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: cho‧ri‧zo

Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo,^[1] either way from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.^[2]

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. a type of sausage
2. (Uruguay) a foolish person

   Synonym: longaniza

3. (vulgar, slang) a penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption

   Synonym: corrupción

• → Basque: txorizo
• → Catalan: xoriço
• → English: chorizo
• → French: chorizo
• → Swedish: chorizo
• → Tagalog: tsoriso

From chori, from Caló chorar (“to steal”).

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. (Spain) a crook
2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket

   Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

1. (vulgar, Chile) stuck up, haughty

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chorizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

• “chorizo”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

• IPA^(key): /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

chorizo c

1. chorizo

• chorizo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• chorizo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)