churro

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʊɹ.oʊ/, /ˈt͡ʃɜɹ.oʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʊɹ.əʊ/

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churro (plural churros)

1. A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.

• churro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

• Rhymes: -uʁu
• Hyphenation: chur‧ro

churro m (plural churros)

1. churro (type of fried pastry)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuro/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ro]

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• Rhymes: -uro
• Syllabification: chu‧rro

Onomatopoeic of the sound of something frying.

churro m (plural churros)

1. churro (type of fried pastry)

   Synonyms: cohombro, taco, (Seville, Huelva) calentito, (Jaén) tallo, (Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Badajoz) tejeringo, (Córdoba) jeringo, (Madrid) porra

2. (colloquial) joint (marijuana cigarette)

   Synonyms: canuto, porro

3. (colloquial) botch, mess, disaster

   Synonyms: chafa, chapuza, pifia

• → Catalan: xurro
• → English: churro
• → Portuguese: churro

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churro (feminine churra, masculine plural churros, feminine plural churras)

1. (colloquial, Peru, Rioplatense, Bolivia, Colombia, obsolete in Chile) attractive

churro m (plural churros)

1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia) spunk, Adonis, beefcake (physically desirable man)

   Synonyms: guapo, guaperas, guapetón, mino

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churro (feminine churra, masculine plural churros, feminine plural churras)

1. (of a sheep) having coarse wool

• “churro”, 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