merengue

From American Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/

merengue (countable and uncountable, plural merengues)

1. (music, uncountable) A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
   • 2007 January 7, Alex Mindlin, “For a Shuttered Marina, Some Regret, Some Relief”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.

2. A song performed in this style.
3. A dance to this style of music.
   • 2011, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Latin Dance, →ISBN, page 86:

     If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.

merengue (third-person singular simple present merengues, present participle merenguing, simple past and past participle merengued)

1. (intransitive) To dance to merengue music.

< Spanish merengue

• IPA^(key): /ˈmereŋːe/, [ˈme̞re̞ŋːe̞]
• Rhymes: -ereŋːe

merengue

1. merengue (music and dance)

Borrowed from Spanish merengue, itself borrowed from French meringue.

• IPA^(key): /me.ʁɛn.ɡe/

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merengue m (plural merengues)

1. (music) merengue

From Spanish merengue, from French meringue.

• Hyphenation: me‧ren‧gue

merengue m (plural merengues)

1. meringue

   Synonym: suspiro

2. (music, dance) merengue

• “merengue”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /meˈɾenɡe/ [meˈɾẽŋ.ɡe]
• Rhymes: -enɡe
• Syllabification: me‧ren‧gue

Borrowed from French meringue.

merengue m (plural merengues)

1. merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean)
2. meringue

   Synonym: espumilla

3. wuss; wimp

   Synonym: baldragas

• → English: merengue
• → French: merengue
• → Portuguese: merengue

merengue m or f by sense (plural merengues)

1. (soccer) a person connected with Real Madrid, as a player, fan, coach, etc.

merengue

1. inflection of merengar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “merengue”, 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