charqui

American

[chahr-kee] / ˈtʃɑr ki /

noun

jerky.

charqui British

/ ˈtʃɑːkɪ, ˈtʃɑːkɪd /

noun

meat, esp beef, cut into strips and dried

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Origin of charqui

From South American Spanish, from Quechua ch'arki

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"And we shall neither have CHARQUI, nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?"

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules

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