pambazo

pambazo (plural pambazos)

1. A Mexican snack made from white bread dipped in a red guajillo pepper sauce, filled with potatoes and chorizo, and fried.

• IPA^(key): /pamˈbaθo/ [pãmˈba.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /pamˈbaso/ [pãmˈba.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: pam‧ba‧zo

Inherited from Early Modern Spanish pan basso (“low-class bread”), made from wheat flour of inferior quality.

pambazo m (plural pambazos)

1. pambazo, a Mexican baguette of white bread used for making sandwiches
2. Boletus edulis, the porcini mushroom, nicknamed from its cap's resemblance to this type of bread

pamba +‎ -azo

pambazo m (plural pambazos)

1. (Mexico) augmentative of pamba