buñuelo

[boon-yoo-ey-loh, boo-nywe-law]

noun

plural

buñuelos 

1. Mexican Cooking.,  a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buñuelo¹

First recorded in 1810–20; from Mexican Spanish, Spanish: “doughnut, fritter”; compare Catalan bunyol “bun,” bony “lump, bulge”; akin to the Romance base of bunion, beignet, bun ¹

Example Sentences

At six on the dot, she came back and announced, “Buñuelo time!”

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The buñuelo steams as Esneider breaks it with his hands to share between us, passing out napkins from his tote bag of supplies.

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The country has several signature treats that are similar to doughnuts, including the fritter-like buñuelo and it’s sister pastry, the sopapilla.

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The pint-sized fourteen-year-old Alia Abad, from Chicago, smiled when she heard the word “buñuelo,” because she loves Spanish.

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She then correctly spelled "quebrada,""collyrium," "buñuelo," and "brindisi" before missing "irbis" to finish in a tie for fifth.

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